Re: Comments on ‘wip-nio’

[Neil Jerram]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu 22 Mar 2012 22:36, Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> It seems like the module has to anticipate the main loop infrastructure
>> that any using programs will use - which isn't a nice solution.
>
> How about, you write your code in such a way that it deals with eports.
> You could surround your code in a prompt that if an eport operation
> aborts because it would block, you save the continuation and ask your
> main loop to call you again when the port is readable / writable.  When
> it calls you again you resume the partial continuation.
>
> If you need to sleep, you use sleep from (ice-9 ethreads).  Somehow we
> make it so that ethreads can use other main loops, like the dbus, efl,
> etc loops.
>
> Dunno.  So many possibilities!

Thanks for the ideas.  I unfortunately have a bit of a cognitive deficit
backlog before I can understand them fully.  I haven't yet understand
prompts properly, and I see that ethreads are built on top of those.
But I'll continue working at it!

         Neil