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Koka currently uses the same approach that it does for compiling to C. It essentially does a very efficient low level monadic translation of a delimited control monad. So basically it all just ends up as a tiny bit of thread local state, and building up continuations on returns from functions if they are yielding.

See this paper for details, it gives a good high level overview before diving into the nitty gritty: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/general...




Thanks, I'm quite interested in this, so I'll certainly give the paper a read!




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