[Squeak-e]
adding eventual sending to Croquet's ScriptProcess and ScriptSche
duler
Withers, Robert
rwithers at quallaby.com
Fri Feb 14 11:39:52 CET 2003
Andreas, I should have sent out a quick note thanking you, 2 days ago.
So..thanks for the explaination of the Script interface, and the discussion
around how it works. Things got very busy at work so I didn't have an
opportunity to look deeper until last night.
I should have the two linked this weekend. I am currently writing an
EventualScriptMessageSend, that holds and activates a resolver, when the
computation is completed. This is the return continuation.
I am curious about your use the ivar #myQueue in the ScriptProcess. I
really like that your ScriptProcess will compute a value, and that that
value is the 'result' of the process. That's a very standard view of
computations. Isn't it a functional view? A better approach for supporting
eventual sending may be to have a subclass of ScriptProcess which holds the
continuation to the invocation site.
> From: Andreas Raab [mailto:andreas.raab at gmx.de]
> [TeaProcessScheduler]
> > I am not sure, but I am thinking that this interruptability
> > breaks the event-loop model.
>
> Yes, most likely so. This is a (continuous) time-driven
> framework not a
> (discrete) event-driven one.
It still must execute activations in a sequential manner, so I wonder if it
wouldn't be possible to provide 'uninterruptibility', or whatever is needed
to ensure an event-loop, yet still have 'real-time' scheduling.
No system-level changes, yet. :)
cheers,
rob
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