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by anonymoushn 4694 days ago
Supporting call/cc and dynamic-wind has a significant performance impact in some languages, even for code that does not use the features.

Supporting coroutine.create+coroutine.clone, shift+reset, or setcontext+getcontext+makecontext+swapcontext seems to have no performance impact on code that does not use the features.