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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2007
Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Brian C. Beckman, Newcastle, WA (US);
Mark B. Shields, Seattle, WA (US);
Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Brian C. Beckman, Newcastle, WA (US);
Mark B. Shields, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A virtual machine is extended to include native support for co-routines. In this manner, high-level programmers are afforded access to such functionality. More particularly, supplied is a mechanism inside the virtual machine to enable method/function state to be maintained and subsequently restored. Consequently, a method/function can be called multiple times and resume where it last left off. This provides direct support for tier splitting patterns, iterators and comprehensions, among other things.