Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads
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Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads
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Re: Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads
#2Metropolitan Transit Authority, apparently, and not Mail Transfer Agent as I had originally thought. Although knowing this hasn't made anything clearer.
About five minutes of my life died to bring you this information.
Re: Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads
#3Metropolitan Transit Authority, apparently, and not Mail Transfer Agent as I had originally thought. Although knowing this hasn't made anything clearer. About five minutes of my life died to bring you this information.
Cheney on the MTA is a strategy for efficiently implementing continuations, TCO, and garbage collection, and allows you to create a continuation with no immediate cost. It's a pun on the song "Charlie on the MTA" because of how it's implemented, like Charlie, it "never returns." For more info, see "CONS Should Not CONS Its Arguments Part II: Cheney On The MTA" By Henry Baker.
Re: Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads
#4Metropolitan Transit Authority, apparently, and not Mail Transfer Agent as I had originally thought. Although knowing this hasn't made anything clearer. About five minutes of my life died to bring you this information.
The reasoning behind the naming is outlined here: http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html. It's a fun read and once you see the lyric it's based on, it makes a lot more sense.
Re: Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads
#5Metropolitan Transit Authority, apparently, and not Mail Transfer Agent as I had originally thought. Although knowing this hasn't made anything clearer. About five minutes of my life died to bring you this information.
Cheney on the MTA is a strategy for efficiently implementing continuations, TCO, and garbage collection, and allows you to create a continuation with no immediate cost. It's a pun on the song "Charlie on the MTA" because of how it's implemented, like Charlie, it "never returns." For more info, see "CONS Should Not CONS Its Arguments Part II: Cheney On The MTA" By Henry Baker.
Yes, that was where I eventually tracked down the meaning (in the footnotes where it was hard to find, although they were good enough to quote the verse).
The thing about pop culture is that firstly it dates really badly, and second is that it doesn't work across cultures. I'd never heard of the song before now..
Re: Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cheney on the MTA is a strategy for efficiently implementing continuations, TCO, and garbage collection, and allows you to create a continuation with no immediate cost. It's a pun on the song "Charlie on the MTA" because of how it's implemented, like Charlie, it "never returns." For more info, see "CONS Should Not CONS Its Arguments Part II: Cheney On The MTA" By Henry Baker.
Yes, that was where I eventually tracked down the meaning (in the footnotes where it was hard to find, although they were good enough to quote the verse). The thing about pop culture is that firstly it dates really badly , and second is that it doesn't work across cultures. I'd never heard of the song before now..
"Charlie on the MTA" isn't really "pop" culture, it's Boston (area) culture, originating over 60 years ago. Not surprising that it ended up in technical literature around Scheme.
Re: Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, that was where I eventually tracked down the meaning (in the footnotes where it was hard to find, although they were good enough to quote the verse). The thing about pop culture is that firstly it dates really badly , and second is that it doesn't work across cultures. I'd never heard of the song before now..
"Charlie on the MTA" isn't really "pop" culture, it's Boston (area) culture, originating over 60 years ago. Not surprising that it ended up in technical literature around Scheme.
Boston area? I live in New England, and while not exactly the most common thing, it's fairly well known.
I've seen more than a few people who thought the Boston T charged you on your way out their first time in Boston because of this song.
Re: Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads
#8This is a pretty cool project, but it doesn't have the library support of other schemes. Given CHICKEN's already Cheney based, I wonder if Felix could somehow integrate this work? Green-Threaded pre-emptive cooroutines are all well and good, but sometimes you want OS threads...
Re: Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads
#9I thought this might have had something to do with the Cyclone safety-oriented C dialect, but apparently the similar name is coincidental.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_(programming_language)
Re: Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads
#10Can anyone point me in the direction some call with continuation and stack and heap explainer? It would be great if it was brief and visual but I'm willing to read up. I just want to make sure that an explanation of call/cc is forthcoming.