Swift is getting async, structured concurrency and actors

Mon Dec 14 01:04:26 UTC 2020

On Sunday, 13 December 2020 at 16:17:32 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Sunday, 13 December 2020 at 09:55:29 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
> Grostad wrote:
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>> It should be possible on MIPS, which doesn't use a stack...
>
> All general purpose CPUs have stacks one way or the other so 
> I'm not sure what you mean that MIPS doesn't use a stack.

By design, RISCish activation frames.  Basically a linked list 
IIRC.

Very common in high level runtimes too. Allows for massive 
concurrency.