From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-11-01T13:24:03+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby performance questions answered

Paul Stickney wrote:
> Will JRuby support continuations (via callcc)?
> 
> I've been reading about Actors in Scala recently and the technical
> documentation mentioned problems with trying to implement
> continuations on the JVM due to lack of stack manipulation.

Neither JRuby nor XRuby nor IronRuby nor Ruby.NET will support 
continuations in the near future. However, there is research happening 
now to support continuations on the JVM...if that takes, we'll piggy 
back off that support.

- Charlie