Andy Wingo writes: > On Fri 25 Sep 2015 23:04, Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> > writes: > >> I wonder if it's about time that Guile get something along the lines of >> a well-supported, general event loop system? > > I think Guile needs user-space threads, implemented on top of delimited > continuations. With threads, you don't need to invert control in your > program. Racket takes this approach as well. > > To get there we need to expose port buffers to Scheme, mark all file > descriptors as nonblocking, and cause EWOULDBLOCK to suspend the current > green thread. I had a prototype working a while back on the > wip-ethreads branch, but you don't want to introduce a separate port > type -- really you want to have this work on all ports, so that's the > hacking that's needed. > > I'll try to get out a 2.2 prerelease in the next week or so -- > everything is up to date now, finally, I just have a pending patch to > make the stack grow down instead of up so we can use native CALL > instructions in some future. Works in progress... > > A
Sounds great! I'm looking forward to this and Guile 2.2 :)
