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

Eli Barzilay wrote:
> On Nov  9, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>   
>> Low-priority callbacks, meanwhile, effectively have a higher
>> priority than threads blocked on `system-idle-evt'. So, maybe it's
>> good that syntax coloring uses callbacks, since that will give it a
>> higher priority than loading cross-reference information.
>>     
>
> That's what I was fantasizing on previously -- in terms of that
> message, low priority callbacks and idle events make two levels.  (And
> yes, the idle event as an "I really don't care when it runs, just move
> it out of the way" is something that fits the xref loading well, but
> not the colorer.)
>
> BTW, one thing that I don't like about my code is that it first
> sleeps, then waits for an idle event.  My first thought was that it
> should wait for the system to be idle for some time before it kicks
> in.  It's not possible to do this now, right?  (Modulo some ridiculous
> busy-wait loop that keeps polling the event.)  Is it possible to add
> something that will make it possible?
>
>   

I noticed there was some new `futures' code in src/mzscheme/future.c. 
Aren't futures exactly whats required here?
> (In theory there's not much point in doing this if the time slices
> that I'm using are smaller than what matters for human interaction,
> but when resources like IO are involved, it might make things feel a
> little less responsive.)
>
>