Network Computing with CPS ― Pipelining Conies for Free

摘要

This paper resurrects Continuation-Passing Style (CPS), a program representation technique long known to compiler writers, and applies it to network programming. CPS excels in representing control flow in programs, and in a network setting, allows for more efficient transfers of control among computational elements than is afforded by conventional remote procedure calling. As an added bonus, network programs using CPS become pipelined at practically no added cost.