Swift is getting async, structured concurrency and actors

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Monday, 14 December 2020 at 01:04:26 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad 
wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>> 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.

Hm, tried to look for it now, but didn't find anything on it for 
MIPS. Might have been another architecture, but probably not 
worth it with caches that came in the 90s and then 64-bit.

Anyway, the basic idea is that you don't require a contiguous 
stack, so that you can have many threads without running into 
address space problems. So, useful for simulations, but also for 
the ability to detach a computation from one thread and sending 
it to another one.