Co-routines native to a virtual execution environment

Details Co-routines native to a virtual execution environment Co-routines native to a virtual execution environment

2007-01-04

2011-11-01

An, Meng (Department: 2195)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac

Task management or control

Process scheduling

C718S001000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08051426

ABSTRACT:
A virtual machine is extended to include native support for co-routines. In this manner, high-level programmers are afforded access to such functionality. More particularly, supplied is a mechanism inside the virtual machine to enable method/function state to be maintained and subsequently restored. Consequently, a method/function can be called multiple times and resume where it last left off. This provides direct support for tier splitting patterns, iterators and comprehensions, among other things.

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