[TUHS] Threads vs... not

[John Cowan]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 6:02 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:


>      A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't
> program
>      state machines.
>
>      Alan Cox


Orly?  Try embedding an LL(1) parser in an event loop that gives you a new
event every time a block is read off the disk.

Event loops are just manual CPS transformations of coroutines -- but why do
the transformation manually instead of having your compiler do it for you?
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