Sunday, August 07, 2005

I've made quite a few changes to the Factor concurrency library I'm working on. The updated documentation is here. The main changes center around using Factor's generic dispatch mechanism to build servers rather than the adhoc 'recv' word I implemented originally. Also implemented is selective message retrieval and 'promises' which work similar to the Alice Programming Language concept. I've included an example that uses the Factor GUI system to implement a gadget that displays a Promise. When the promise is later fulfilled the gadget is automatically updated to show the value. 2:49:38 PM