[LLVMdev] Erlang

[Álvaro Castro Castilla]

Hi,

Sorry for the vagueness.

I'm starting to think about an experimental programming language
based, among other things, on microthreads, or green threads, as
Erlang has. I'm still under a very vague stage, just thinking on it,
so I was wondering on the way this could be achieved.

What I know from microthreads are things like:

* They don't have their own stack
* Switching between threads is controlled by the application, not the OS
* They are isolated and the only way to exchange information is message passing

Erlang requires an interpreter for this, but, how could I achieve a
similar feature for my language with the LLVM JIT?

I hope this is a bit clearer,

Thank you!

.alvaro.castro.




2008/7/24 Bill Wendling <isanbard at gmail.com>:
> Hi Álvaro,
>
> Your question is too vague to answer with any accuracy. Could you be
> more specific?
>
> -bw
>
> On Jul 24, 2008, at 1:08 PM, "Álvaro Castro Castilla" <alvaro.castro.castilla at gmail.co
> m> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> How would you implement an Erlang feature such as the ultra-light
>> processes?
>> Is llvm prepared for similar situations?
>>
>> I would appreciate some insight on this.
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>>
>> .alvaro.castro.castilla.
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