Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Coroutines in C Message-ID: <10747@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 16 Aug 89 04:25:28 GMT References: <5663@ficc.uu.net> <14281@haddock.ima.isc.com> <563@augean.OZ> <5695@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 11 In article <5695@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >> What sort of problems do you want coroutines for? I seem to have survived about >> 14 years of programming without ever using them! >Mainly for the sort of event-loop programming endemic to windowing systems. >It would be easier to code this sort of application if minithreads were >available. Ah, you raise an interesting point. EVENT LOOPS SUCK. Rob Pike has some interesting comments on this and suggestions for a better approach in his article "A Concurrent Window System" in the Spring 1989 issue of Computing Systems (The Journal of the USENIX Association) (Vol. 2 No. 2).