Tony Collen wrote:
James Strachan writes [1]:
"Spent a great afternoon & evening with John Rose from Sun (compiler & VM team), who's on the Groovy JSR - we've managed to figure out many of the gremlins in the language. Plus I learnt quite a bit about the JVM. e.g. it might not be that hard to implement continuations at the JVM level! Apparently the JVM already does a kind of continuation internally for optimising bytecode - so if you want native continuations, hassle the good folks at Sun & raise some bug reports, maybe we can persuade them to sneak it into 1.6 :). Native Java continuations would totally rock - and avoid all that inefficient bytecode swizzling we'd have to do to implement continuations on top of the JVM."
Nice!
Well, I wonder what it will happen to java (or to me!) in the 7 years that will take java 1.6 to be widespread enough for us to switch to it.
:-/
-- Stefano.
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