[plt-dev] Re: [plt-scheme] Speed up check-syntax

I would guess it would be a better fit for GUI interactivity. Use a
low priority callback to trigger each quantum of work.

Robby

On Monday, November 9, 2009, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Nov  9, Robby Findler wrote:
>> Thanks, Eli. That looks nice.
>>
>> Matthew suggested something similar, but using mzlib/couroutine,
>> where I use a low-priority gui callback to give the thread the next
>> quantum.
>
> Is there any advantage for that?
>
>
> On Nov  9, Robby Findler wrote:
>> PS: feel free to check this in, but it probably belongs in
>> scribble/xref or setup/xref, not in the syntax checker.
>
> I'll probably put it in `scheme/promise' as some `delay/idle', so it
> works with `force' as usual.
>
> (There is some concern if there are several of these things active --
> if both use the same delay values, then one can starve the other.  But
> I don't think that this is a problem since it's used only for idle
> computations.)
>
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