Re: Continuation webapps

Bruce Lewis <brlspam@yahoo.com> writes:

> Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk> writes:
> 
>
> This sounds like premature optimization to me.  A lot of success has
> been had with frameworks that don't scale well.

I don't believe so. I think it's a better understanding of what the
web is. The web *is* stateless. See Representational State Transfer
(or REST) by Roy Fielding:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pu...rtation/top.htm


> Speaking as someone accustomed to writing stateless and SQL-store web
> apps, I'd say go for it with the continuation based concept and see how
> well it flies.  Obviously a lot of people have trouble doing stateless
> or event-driven programming, and using continuations to create the
> illusion of conventional step-by-step programming might win over quite a
> few.

Yes. Maybe.


> I also wouldn't worry about Apache.  Shared hosting will largely be
> replaced by User Mode Linux as time goes on, I predict.

I agree.

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Nic Ferrier
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