[Vm-dev] FFI callbacks

[tim Rowledge]

On 25-11-2014, at 4:18 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:

> I absolutely need callbacks that happen after the method returned. JavaScript uses callbacks for everything, because it is single-threaded. There is no preemption, and not even a yield: you always have to return completely back to the browser. You don’t call the browser, it calls you. There is no main(). Also, there is no longjmp.

Ah, so it’s back to the old days of  Windows 3.1, MacOS System 8 & RISC OS. What fun!


tim
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