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Re: asynchronous parsing
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joakim |
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Re: asynchronous parsing |
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Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:16:15 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:04:20 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> I. Asynchronous parsing
> SM> BTW, I'm interested in adding core-Emacs support for such parsing, so if
> SM> you have any ideas about it, please share them. The way I see it, there
> SM> should be a table-based parsing engine written in C running in
> SM> a spearate thread, so the question are "what should the tables look
> SM> like?", "what should the output look like?", "what should the engine
> SM> look like?", "how should the asynchronous code synchronize with the rest
> SM> of Emacs?". Any help along this effort would be welcome.
>
> Maybe it would make sense to make this engine the first implementation
> of an asynchronous process in Emacs. We know we need general-purpose
> asynchronous processes, it's been discussed many times. Doing it with a
> parser, a read-only process with internal state, would be a good start.
> The difference from your suggestion is that rather than implementing a
> one-off, the goal becomes the first cut of a general facility.
>
> I bring this up because the need for asynchronous processes keeps coming
> up in Gnus discussions...
Sounds very interesting, how would that work?
> Ted
>
>
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Joakim Verona
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