Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE

[Jim Porter]

On 3/13/2023 11:39 PM, Karthik Chikmagalur wrote:
> > It would probably be reasonable to add a more asynchronous-oriented way
> > of working with generator.el's CPS machinery, but I think the bigger
> > problem is just the time to fix existing code that's not doing the right
> > thing.
>
> What needs to be fixed in generator.el for this?

I was thinking something like the emacs-aio library you mentioned, 
actually. It's less that generator.el is broken (I don't think it is, at 
least), and more that it's not the interface I'd use for writing 
asynchronous code.

That said, something that looks like emacs-aio might not be the best 
answer either; it will probably take some experimentation to see what 
would be most usable (and what would have acceptable performance). I 
seem to recall that Stefan Monnier (CCed) mentioned having some WIP code 
to make generator.el easier to use for asynchronous code...