c++ and c: protothreads

provides linear code execution for event-driven systems.

"lightweight stackless threads"

reminds me of go’s goroutines when go is running under a single cpu core.

see writeup and analysis at following:

• http://blog.brush.co.nz/2012/11/async-await-protothreads-cpp/
• http://blog.brush.co.nz/2008/07/protothreads/#cpp

actual implementation for c:

• http://dunkels.com/adam/pt/

implementation for c++:

• https://github.com/benhoyt/protothreads-cpp

co-routines in c

• http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

continuation passing c

• http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~kerneis/software/cpc/

2 books at a time

i think i’m going to try to be reading 1 book about my pragmatic languages list and 1 from my research languages list. at the moment the two books are:

• practical: classic shell scripting (shell)
• research: simply scheme (scheme)