On 24 March 2011 19:43, Eliot Miranda <
eliot.miranda@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2011/3/24 Levente Uzonyi <
leves@elte.hu>
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>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Eliot Miranda wrote:
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>> (pine can't quote your mail, sorry)
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> :) No problem.
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>> "I have some image-level changes that I'll try and commit asap, or at least give you as some inbox packages
>> - parsing FFI method annotations to discover the #threaded keyword that sets the "go ahead and thread this call" bit in an FFI spec
>> - an additional inst var in ExternalFunction (IIRC) that allows the VM to record how much stack space to reserve when marshalling an FFI call
>> - the new callback marshalling machinery that provides platform-independence
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>> I just need to fid the time to push the code to you.
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>> Now on testing I use
>> a) an image with a "listener" that reads and writes from/to stdin/out while allowing one to interact with the image
>> b) a native Mac OS file dialog that uses a threaded call to invoke without blocking the image and threaded callbacks to determine which files to
>> show (filter callback) and what the accept action is. I've of course lost my workspace containing this and so have to ferret out the doits from my
>> changes file (I feel such a fool!). Alas this will need work as it used an extension to a Teleplace native file dialog plugin. But posting it to
>> FFI will be good; it will test the FFI further.
>> c) a threaded version of the ODBC connect that hasn't really been tested
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>> etting you and others to start pounding on these would be fantastic. Just a matter of finding time. f you're happy for me to push inbox packages,
>> changesets, workspace contents then I can provide something quickly. If you want me to commit canges that I've made sure are backward compatible
>> and don't break trunk I'm going ot be much slower.
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>> best regards (albeit feeling a little frazzled :-) ),
>> Eliot"
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>> Isn't it the best time to migrate the syntax of FFI calls to Pragmas? I know it takes some time to implement the pragma support, but IIRC Lukas did that a few years ago, so dusting it off and adding support for threaded calls (which I didn't see yet) shouldn't be that hard.
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+1000.