On 01/22/2012 11:46 PM, Ian Price wrote: >> To get better acquainted with continuations I have been playing with >> them in the context of web programming a bit. Much has been written >> on the topic (in particular I find the Racket tutorials very >> instructive), and here I would just like to share the small >> experiments I did using delimited continuations and the Guile (web >> server). Kudos to Andy for providing a very nice foundation. > > It's always nice to see someone playing with continuations. Your example > is very similar to one I did a while back https://gist.github.com/1381107. > > It would be if someone(nudge nudge) were to take the effort to make one > of these experiments practical, since a guile web framework seems to be > a common request. > While i like the idea i should note that it does not scale. What if you have 5 application servers (guile (import (web server)) running behind reverse proxy. User may never fire needed continuation. Overall scaling strategy for web is "avoid per node state" (see read-only filesystems on Heroku).
PS: Ian, sorry for double reply. amike, antno
