> hacking the JS to add an _ parameters to all async calls Unfortunately I need to support arbitrary unknown code calling my lib functions.
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Bruno Jouhier <bjouh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark, > > sync XHR may be a bandaid solution but I think that it should really be a > last resort. > > For info, vim has been ported to the browser by Lu Wang. The challenge was > similar to yours because the implementation uses blocking calls to read > from the terminal. The challenge was even higher because the source was in > C, not JS. > > The vim port was done by first transpiling the C to JS with , then hacking > the JS to add an _ parameters to all async calls, and then transpiling with > streamline.js. A special C header was used to rename all the async calls so > that they could be hacked automatically. The result is here: > http://coolwanglu.github.io/vim.js/web/vim.html > > Later on, Lu Wang created his own fork of emscripten with an async > extension. This allowed him to eliminate the streamline.js pass. > > So maybe you should not completely rule out the transpiler route. > > Bruno > > On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 7:59:07 PM UTC+1, Mark Hahn wrote: >> >> > So Atom pinwheels when the disk is slow? >> >> No. The disk is fast enough to not notice. It is node itself that slows >> down atom, at least compared to an editor written in C++. >> >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Aria Stewart <ared...@nbtsc.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Oct 28, 2014, at 1:20 AM, Mark Hahn <ma...@hahnca.com> wrote: >>> >>> > you've only synchronous XHR to do that, >>> >>> You've made me think about this. I rejected sync XHR out-of-hand >>> because the user interface would be blocked which of course is a horrible >>> idea. But the Atom editor only hits the disk to load/save source files and >>> sometimes to load/save options. And of course it hits it a lot when the >>> app is loading. When editing a source file the disk it silent. So maybe >>> sync XHR is worth considering. >>> >>> >>> Makes sense! >>> >>> So Atom pinwheels when the disk is slow? >>> >>> > it's pretty restricted since all the new features of XHR aren't >>> allowed in sync mode. >>> >>> What features would I be missing? I can't imagine anything other than >>> making normal http requests. >>> >>> >>> Binary data handling and some of the XHR2 features, I believe. >>> >>> -- >>> Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >>> New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file- >>> moderation-policy-md >>> Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List- >>> Posting-Guidelines >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "nodejs" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>> topic/nodejs/oMNRWXwASOU/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> nodejs+un...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to nod...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>> msgid/nodejs/469BEE26-2A5A-4AA8-AE82-F20EC0B5C964%40nbtsc.org >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/469BEE26-2A5A-4AA8-AE82-F20EC0B5C964%40nbtsc.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > New group rules: > https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md > Old group rules: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/nodejs/oMNRWXwASOU/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/f358a7b2-3152-47f6-86ed-b4d235d436fc%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/f358a7b2-3152-47f6-86ed-b4d235d436fc%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/CACrj35HmhBAENjNMRCUmEpx%2BDpDsRaGm5hzi0Bb4JHbnH4_7YQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
