LOGO-L> Re: Logo with parallel processes vs. ToonTalk

[bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey)]

"Ken Kahn" <KenKahn@ToonTalk.com> writes:
>I believe the Java implementation of threads is good and that within their
>framework it would be too expensive to support thousands of threads. I refer
>to Java only because I am more familiar with it. I believe that the cost of
>threads is high in all mainstream languages that have added threads.

That may be.  What I don't believe is that the reason has to do with
procedure stack frames; I can certainly get > 100,000 deep in procedure
calls in Logo without trouble.  (And of course if it's a tail call,
infinitely deep.)




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