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14:01 pdurbin
michbarsinai: ah, I see you're in touch with the Mozilla folks: https://gitter.im/mozillascience/community?at=5983266b2723db8d5e6fa70b . Awesome.
14:08 michbarsinai
Yes. Thanks for helping me on Gitter :-)
14:09 michbarsinai
Seems like everyone falls silent when I try to get information about Rhino.
14:12 pdurbin
michbarsinai: Well, Rhino is quite old. Why not use V8 or Chakra or Nashorn or SpiderMonkey? Is Rhino still under development?
14:13 michbarsinai
Not sure. The thing is, for what we're doing we don't need speed, we need full continuations.
14:14 michbarsinai
The real LISP thingy, where you can take the entire runtime state, put it in memory and act on it as normal data
14:19 pdurbin
I forget what continuations are.
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14:33 michbarsinai
continuations allow code to capture its current runtime state into a data structure. and the continue executing it later, and even executing it a few times.
14:34 pdurbin
sounds useful for checkpointing and restarting large compute jobs
14:34 michbarsinai
Very strong concept, also very confusing. It has beed phased out of ruby, which says something (since ruby has everything and in confusing ways too)
14:35 michbarsinai
(e.g. you can throw an exception or raise an exception. I was never sure what the semantic difference was)
14:36 pdurbin
my understanding is that without checkpointing one has "embarrassingly parallel" compute jobs
14:39 michbarsinai
:-)
14:40 michbarsinai
True. We use it for verification. So you could, to some not-too-bad extent, know that your software behaves correctly.
14:44 pdurbin
software never behaves itself
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