FFI and callbacks (was: RE: How Do You Do Business Apps?)
Stephan Rudlof
sr at evolgo.de
Fri Mar 3 02:02:52 UTC 2000
"John W. Sarkela" wrote:
>
> We have a working callback mechanism based on POSIX-compliant
> semaphores that we are preparing for release. It is fully
> synchronous now, but we are planning on support for asynchronous
> call-in (to Squeak) as well.
Interesting!
>
> We are preparing a VM plug-in that provides this mechanism through a .so on
> Unixesque systems.
That's great!
> It is easy to see how Mac and Windows-32 ports may be
> made. There is a little bit of portable C-code to operate the platform
> semaphore mechanisms. The rest is in Smalltalk 'Slang' and regular
> Smalltalk. We have tested an implementation that used additional
> primitives in the VM. We are reimplementing these as a
> named-primitive plugin.
That's nice. It's good to have as many named pluggable prims as
possible:
- more readable,
- less changes at the core VM,
- pluggable.
>
> We are planning to make this available by the time of Camp Smalltalk, but
> may be able to post something sooner.
>
> We have posted this notice because we are seeing a good number of calls for
> this capability. We can serve as the center for this effort if the
> community is receptive.
> We would like to advance this in the context of a
> generalized message capability.
Sounds very fundamental: perhaps this should be synchronized with SqC...
Thank you for your efforts!
Greetings,
Stephan
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