From 51c95fc11727532e3b0d98c8470a6b60907a0680 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 21:31:31 +0100 Subject: IRC. --- continuation.mdwn | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 continuation.mdwn (limited to 'continuation.mdwn') diff --git a/continuation.mdwn b/continuation.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..87f88f27 --- /dev/null +++ b/continuation.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +Continuations are a facility which allows a thread to store its state, yield +the processor to another thread, and when it's dispatched again by the +scheduler, it can resume with its saved state. + +[[!wikipedia Continuation]] + +See also [[GNU Mach's use of +continuations|microkernel/mach/gnumach/continuation]]. -- cgit v1.2.3