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Continuations are a facility which allows a thread to store its state, yield
the processor to another thread, and when it's dispatched again by the
scheduler, it can resume with its saved state.

[[!wikipedia Continuation]]

See also [[GNU Mach's use of
continuations|microkernel/mach/gnumach/continuation]].