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Re: guile-vm-0.0



> AFAIK there are only 5 solutions for this problem:
> 
> 1. Drop call/cc and threads and keep the stack centric model
> 2. Use special markers and copy the stack when necessary
> 3. Use stack segments
> 4. "The stack is the heap"; Henry Baker's "Cheney on the M.T.A"
>    (we'll need a copying gc to implement that though)
> 5. Put all frames on the heap.

You can get rid of call/cc with the cps tranformation at the compiler
level.  I don't think that this addresses threads, though.

-russ


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