Comment by LegionMammal978
1 day ago
It's not just pausing and resuming that I'm looking for, but serialization into a form that can be saved to and loaded from files. (Another commenter calls this "materialization" of continuations.) In that regard, the problem with CPS is that continuations are totally opaque (or nearly so) in every language I'm aware of: you aren't able to do anything with them except resume them within the same execution of the program. Do any of your "defunctionalization" implementations offer such a feature?
Defunctionalization is a general technique that allows one to serialize functions as data. You’ve almost certainly used this technique before without realizing it was an instance of defunctionalization.