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Re:Poll: Unknown or expired link on YC by jcl on Tuesday April 15, 2008 @12:22PM (#164232)
These error messages are a consequence of any scheme that stores session state on the server: the session data must expire, or the server will fill up. The problem would remain even if some other method of serialization was used instead of continuations.

That said, I expect that continuations store more data than a hand-tuned serialization and thus need to be expired earlier. I'd be curious to know how much more space is used storing continuations versus the bare minimum.

Re:Poll: Unknown or expired link on YC by LogicHoleFlaw on Tuesday April 15, 2008 @01:09PM (#164300)
Some sort of stateless method of interacting with a site helps alleviate the session problem. That's one of the touted advantages of REST architecture.