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Re: Asynchronous event loop brainstorm at FSF 30
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Amirouche Boubekki |
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Re: Asynchronous event loop brainstorm at FSF 30 |
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Sun, 04 Oct 2015 15:24:48 +0200 |
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Héllo,
Please excuse my layman question in advance.
I find the idea awesome to work on asynchronous framework for Guile.
Le 2015-10-04 00:29, Christopher Allan Webber a écrit :
So David Thompson, Mark Weaver, Andrew Engelbrecht and I sat down to
talk over how we might go about an asynchronous event loop in Guile
that
might be fairly extensible. Here are some of what we discussed, in
bullet points:
- General idea is to do something coroutine based.
IUC coroutine takes advantage of the ability to pause the execution of
given procedure A to run a blocking operation B and execute some other
procedure C while the blocking operation B is running. At some point,
when the blocking operation B is finished, and C is finished, A restarts
where it left.
- This would be like asyncio or node.js, asynchronous but *not* OS
thread based (it's too much work to make much of Guile fit around
that for now)
- If you really need to maximize your multiple cores, you can do
multiple processes with message passing anyway
Does it mean that there will be one event loop per thread per process ?
- So what we really need is a nice API for how to do coroutines, write
asynchronous code, and work with some event loop with a scheduler
- Probably a good way to start on this would be to use libuv (or is it
libev?) and prototype this. It's not clear if that's a good long
term approach (eg, I think it doesn't work on the HURD for those who
care about that, and Guix certainly does)
In asyncio the event loop can be swapped the default event loop is pure
python. You mean that the first version will use libuv (libuv is the
nodejs eventloop, formely based on libev).
- Binary/custom ports could be a nice means of abstraction for this
So, that's our thoughts, maybe someone or one of us or maybe even *you*
will be inspired to start from here?
I don't want to make promises (pun on punpose) but I find this proposal
really interesting.