Hi Eliot,
Sorry for the delayed answer, I've been running with other issues :( Yes, I think this is important and I would like to allocate some time to work on it. I will start preparing a CI-job for the CogMT, next step would be to finish your cases. If you point me where to start, I can be your collaborator in this task :)
Esteban
On Jul 31, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Esteban,
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Esteban Lorenzano estebanlm@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Eliot,
I've seen that you are consistently maintaining the MT version of the Cog, so I wonder what is his status. Is it usable?
I have a very simple test case, a REPL loop that runs in parallel with the UI. This works. I had a more complex case that I have not maintained, a concurrent callout to the Mac file chooser dialog. The dialog uses (asynchronous, concurrent) callbacks to ask the client about valid file names. This nearly worked but I haven't had time to get back to it. (Another unmaintained test case is a concurrent interface to ODBC).
I think the scheme should work well but it requires work. I think the work is worth it, but I need to find the time, and I need a collaborator.
Esteban, I think this would be relevant for your Mac UI work, and would revolutionize the Squeak/Pharo FFI. But it is not an easy thing to develop (concurrency is never easy to deal with).
best, Eliot