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| 1 | \chapter{Conclusion}
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| 2 | \label{c:conclusion}
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| 3 | % Just a little knot to tie the paper together.
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| 5 | In the previous chapters, this thesis presents the design and implementation
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| 6 | of \CFA's exception handling mechanism (EHM).
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| 7 | Both the design and implementation are based off of tools and
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| 8 | techniques developed for other programming languages but they were adapted to
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| 9 | better fit \CFA's feature set and add a few features that do not exist in
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| 10 | other EHMs,
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| 11 | including conditional matching, default handlers for unhandled exceptions
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| 12 | and cancellation though coroutines and threads back to the program main stack.
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| 13 | 
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| 14 | The resulting features cover all of the major use cases of the most popular
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| 15 | termination EHMs of today, along with reintroducing resumption exceptions and
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| 16 | creating some new features that fit with \CFA's larger programming patterns,
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| 17 | such as virtuals independent of traditional objects.
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| 18 | 
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| 19 | The \CFA project's test suite has been expanded to test the EHM.
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| 20 | The implementation's performance has also been
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| 21 | compared to other implementations with a small set of targeted
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| 22 | micro-benchmarks.
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| 23 | The results, while not cutting edge, are good enough for prototyping, which
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| 24 | is \CFA's current stage of development.
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| 26 | This initial EHM will bring valuable new features to \CFA in its own right
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| 27 | but also serves as a tool and motivation for other developments in the
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| 28 | language.
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