On Oct 31, 2010, at 5:28 AM, Shaping wrote:
> I need multi-processing, and fast inter-process queues to build an Actor-like
> model for my application. Multithreading is useful too, but foreseeably not
> as useful as multi-processing. I hope these are in the works.
Multithreading Factor code is currently not possible, and would require a lot
of work to the VM and libraries to make happen. Multiprocessing is of course
possible using standard Unix/Windows IPC. Phil Dawes has done some preliminary
work on allowing multiple Factor VMs to run in separate threads, effectively
giving you Factor multiprocessing within the same kernel process.
> Two issues:
>
> 1) Smalltalk environments often offer a rich syntax highlighter and method
> code formatter. I benefit greatly from being able to speed my reading with
> the best mix of color and format. Do we have a preferred text editor and
> text-styler (character color and emphasis) to go with it?
>
> Do we have a text formatter?
The Emacs FUEL package provides syntax highlighting and Factor REPL
interaction, similar to what SLIME offers with Common Lisp. We also have syntax
highlighters available for Vim, Emacs, Textmate, and other editors. The Factor
environment has basic editor integration (opening source files for particular
function definitions from Factor, for example) available for a number of text
editors, including Notepad++. Look under basis/editors/ in the source
repository.
> 2) I'm having trouble building Factor. I'm doing it the "hard way" in three
> separate steps. I've installed the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and
> .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, and run the vsvars32.bat.
> The 'path' environment variable looks correct, but executing
>
> nmake /f Nmakefile x86-32
>
> in a command box from the Factor Git-repository directory gives
>
> nmake /nologo PLATFORM=x86-32 /f Nmakefile all
> cl /EHsc /nologo /O2 /WX /W3 /D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
> /Fovm/main-window
> s.obj /c vm/main-windows.cpp
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 10.0
> \VC\bin\cl.EXE"' : return code '0xc0000135'
> Stop.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 10.0
> \VC\bin\nmake.EXE"' : return code '0x2'
> Stop.
Are you building from a command line spawned through the "Windows SDK Shell"
Start menu item? Especially if you have both Visual Studio and the Windows SDK
compilers installed, you need to make sure your environment is set up for one
or the other, or weird things will happen.
-Joe
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