Hello, Andy Wingo <wi...@igalia.com> writes:
> On Sun 12 Mar 2017 15:49, Mathieu Lirzin <m...@gnu.org> writes: > >> Here is my proposal for the Google Summer of Code 2017. > > Looks great to me. FWIW I think you may want to use Fibers in Cuirass. > Sometimes a web API request might need to "fork" off a number of tasks, > and Fibers lets you do that pretty easily, and provides nice > communications mechanisms for inter-fiber communication like channels > and condition variables. It also prevents one long API request from > starving other API users. Also its abstractions are thread-safe, and it > enables parallel speedups by using all available cores. > > Right now Fibers doesn't have explicit support for subprocess events > like child-died, etc, though it can do concurrent access to multiple > pipes at once. So there's some work to do here. > > A reference: > > https://github.com/wingo/fibers/wiki/Manual > > Specifically see the "web server" notes in the Examples section. Fibers > is in Guix as "guile-fibers". Looks interesting. The web server that uses the standard interface seems not that difficult to integrate. I will add that to the road-map. Thanks. -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37
