Fiber
Languages and libraries
python recursion library
SHOW HN2021
119points
21comments
#435of 2,533 in 2021
Top 18%of 2021 by points
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0 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.21.
Docs: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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Objections
Scheduler only runs functions to completion and does not yield except on recursive calls
From 1 comment
Hi HN, I wrote this. Admittedly Fiber is not the best name — in the current implementation we don't yield to the scheduler except for recursive function calls, and our…
tylerhou on HN
Rewritten functions are hard to debug
From 2 comments
neat idea, but i'm guessing that a rewritten function would be nightmarish to debug... or no? wonder if it would be possible to do automated rewrites of recursive functions as…
a-dub on HNYeah, debugging the written function is not easy, but that could be improved by adding the normal tools for rewrites (sourcemap). Also, you can put print/logging statements…
tylerhou on HN
Requests
Compare with tail-call optimization (tco)
From 1 comment
May be compare to tco which is not as general.
KolenCh on HN
Questions
Can recursive functions be automatically rewritten as iterative ones?
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neat idea, but i'm guessing that a rewritten function would be nightmarish to debug... or no? wonder if it would be possible to do automated rewrites of recursive functions as…
a-dub on HN> wonder if it would be possible to do automated rewrites of recursive functions as iterative ones. Of course. > specifically for cases where stack memory that grows in a…
thaumasiotes on HN
Alternatives named
Tail-call optimization (tco)
From 1 comment
May be compare to tco which is not as general.
KolenCh on HN
Continuation-passing style in Lisp
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> wonder if it would be possible to do automated rewrites of recursive functions as iterative ones. specifically for cases where stack memory that grows in a recursive…
jhanschoo on HN