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Additionally, for JavaScript specifically I found this paper to be very clever and enlightening. Good code generation depends on the platform your targeting and I think this is the only way to get them performant on JS. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.89.9...

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That's certainly the case for full CPS, but using a CPS intermediate language does not imply call/cc. Indeed Kennedy targeted the .Net CIL; a direct-style VM. The important thing to note is that continuations and functions can be statically distinguished. The article conflates the two, which is why I don't find it very useful.

> In this paper we present our adaption of exception-based continuations to JavaScript.

Goto via exceptions? An intriguing idea, but I guess exceptions are glorified goto in any case. The generated source must be interesting, though.

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