cadey
/
nim-wiki
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Releases Wiki Activity

Updated GSoC 2014 Ideas (markdown)

This commit is contained in:
Dominik Picheta 2014-02-12 15:54:35 -08:00
parent f705232f60
commit cf0248bb9a
1 changed files with 2 additions and 3 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

5
GSoC-2014-Ideas.md
View File

@ -9,9 +9,8 @@ Below is a list of project ideas for [GSoC](https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/
#### Add support for full coroutines
**Description:**
* Many programming languages, in particular Lua, offer coroutines as way to provide light-weight collaborative tasking. Nimrod supports "closure iterators" which are comparable to Python's generators to accomplish the same.
* However closure iterators are much more limited as they cannot capture the call stack completely.
* The best example to see the limitations of Nimrod's current way is that iterators cannot be recursive.
Many programming languages, in particular Lua, offer coroutines as a way to provide light-weight collaborative tasking. Nimrod supports "closure iterators" which are comparable to Python's generators to accomplish the same. However closure iterators are much more limited as they cannot capture the call stack completely. The best example to see the limitations of Nimrod's current way is that iterators cannot be recursive.
Here is a sketch of a possible implementation, but there are lots of other possibilities to implement full coroutines for Nimrod: