Re: async.el: A simple asynchronous framework for Emacs

[SAKURAI Masashi <m.sakurai@kiwanami.net>]

Hi John,

I'm interesting in your async solution.
I have written async codes, deferred.el and concurrent.el,
such as the green-thread in Emacs Lisp.

At Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:34:46 -0500,
John Wiegley wrote:
>  :
> All I see from the stdout of the child process is around 20 ^G characters, and
> then it blocks waiting for input.  However, If I delete *any one* of the setq
> statements above (it doesn't matter which), it works just fine.  So it doesn't
> appear to be triggered by the length, or by any special characters.  I'm
> having a tough time figuring this one out.
> 
> I've also implemented a message-passing scheme so one can implement status
> updates for long-running async jobs, but I'm hesitant to enable it because it
> relies on communicating over the pipe.

For the long time jobs and fast communication with other processes, 
I have written a RPC stack on the Emacs: EPC, Emacs remote Procedure Call.

kiwanami/emacs-epc · GitHub
https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-epc

Currently, I wrote the implementations for Emacs and Perl.
Both implementations can act as client and server, such as
Emacs client - Emacs server or Emacs client - Perl server.
The protocol is the S-exp and asynchronous messaging on the 
TCP socket, like SWANK in SLIME(http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/).

The EPC may be solve the communication with the child process.


I have not written the document for EPC yet, if some people
are interesting in it, I would write some document.

The EPC is used by Emacs DBI, the database management interface.

kiwanami/emacs-edbi · GitHub
https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-edbi

Emacs DBI (Sorry for Japanese article)
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/kiwanami/20120305/1330939440


Thank you,
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SAKURAI, Masashi (family, given)
m.sakurai@kiwanami.net