On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:23 AM, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
Just sharing a passing thought so I don't forget it before I have time to think more deeply on it.
Several parts of Pharo (like SHTextStyler) are designed to have a background process running, and when new input arrives that process is killed so another can be immediately started - and sometimes we seem to end up with large amounts of zombie processes.
As I poke around Process>>terminate, I wonder if a different approach would be to have a Process>>restart. I see there is Context>>restart.
The starting the background process might look like...
stylingProcess := [ [ "do stuff with nextData". self suspend ] repeat ] forkAt: 30.
and the code in the main morphic priority 40 thread might look like...
sylingProcess suspend. nextData := 'blah'. sylingProcess restart.
Hi Ben, so I'm assuming restart differs from resume. Am I right in thinking it cuts back the process to the "start"? Is the start the block from which the process was spawned, the argument to fork or forkAt:?
anyway, back to the grind for me, cheers -ben
_,,,^..^,,,_ best, Eliot