From atp at piskorski.com  Thu Apr  3 16:36:40 2008
From: atp at piskorski.com (Andrew Piskorski)
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:36:40 -0400
Subject: [Rd] R-uthreads?
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 11:58:34AM -0500, Luke Tierney wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Rd] callCC in 2.7.0

> Some of us worked on something along these lines a while back in a
> branch called R-uthreads, but the cost of converting to that
> approach and the overhead of maintaining it seemed too high for the
> benefit, at least at the time.

Luke, could you say a bit more about R-uthreads, what your ideas,
goals, and conclusions there were?

I see the old R-uthreads branch in svn (looks like it was based on R
1.4 back in Aug. 2001), but I couldn't find any summary discussion,
and I can't tell much just from looking at "src/main/uthreads.c".

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Andrew Piskorski <atp at piskorski.com>
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[Rd] R-uthreads?
Andrew Piskorski