[gambit-list] Closures, continuations, strategies, and actual measurements

D.McClain dbm at asyrmatos.com
Sat May 23 10:59:57 EDT 2009


There is a very revealing paper by Clinger, Hartheimer, and Ost,  
"Implementations Strategies for First Class Continuations", that  
provides detailed examinations of various strategies, the code  
generated to support them, and actual measurements showing the  
effects of each implementation variation.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/h5808n962434j275/fulltext.pdf

This paper, along with Marc's recent explanation about the cost of  
CPS, should go a long way toward explaining why CPS code may be  
slower than direct form code.

Dr. David McClain
Sr. VP, Embedded Systems
Asyrmatos Inc.
Boston & Tucson
phone: 	520-529-2437
cell: 	520-390-3995
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e-mail:	dbm at asyrmatos.com




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