JVM is finally getting support for continuations a...
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suresh
11/18/2018, 6:52 AMJVM is finally getting support for continuations and fibers… This is a game changer IMO. No need to distinguish between blocking and non blocking call. A fiber never issues thread-blocking operations. Any call to a blocking operation becomes fiber-blocking rather than thread-blocking.
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Ruckus
11/18/2018, 7:09 AMhttps://twitter.com/relizarov/status/1063078995674255360?s=09
Nitpick: in CS “continuation” roughly means “callback” — a function of one argument (the result of preceding computation). The concept shown here is definitely NOT a continuation. Very confusing to call it such.
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ursus
11/18/2018, 2:48 PMSo, Fibers = Cooroutines?
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elizarov
11/18/2018, 6:58 PMRoughly.
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