[erlang-questions] callcc or CPS in Erlang?

[Jon Watte]

One of the biggest problems of CPS code in Twisted or Node or most other
frameworks using that mechanism, is that it ends up with single-threaded
servers, making poor use of multi-threaded hardware.
In Erlang, a process is comparable to the cost as a continuation with a
function lambda in other languages (give or take a little bit, depending on
specifics of implementation and use).
Write your code serially, in a process, and talk to it using messaging. It's
easier to write, debug, and understand that way. Because of data being
immutable, there is no risk of threading data hazards.

Sincerely,

jw

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On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Guy Wiener <wiener.guy@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> Is there some equivalent to callcc (as in Scheme or Ruby) in Erlang?
> Alt., is there some what to encourage Continuation-Passing Style
> programming in Erlang, other than just recommending that all consequent
> function calls will be in tail-call position?
>
> Thanks,
>   Guy
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