Re: Any tips on 2 process vinyl to file converter?

[Steve Litt <slitt@...>]

On Thursday 27 January 2011 03:58:46 Robert G. Jakabosky wrote:
> On Wednesday 26, Steve Litt wrote:
> > I'm thinking of redoing this in Lua. Can coroutines be run in two
> > different xterms? Can coroutines signal each other? Would you even
> > recommend coroutines? Does Lua have facilities to send Linux signals?
> > Might they communicate via sockets? Any other words of wisdom?
> 
> You could use ConcurrentLua [1], which has a distributed mode that lets
> coroutine "tasks" communicate in an erlang style of message-passing between
> PIDs.  So you would run one instance of Lua in each xterm window, there
>  could even be background instances of Lua running worker tasks.
> 
> Another option would be to use ZeroMQ [2] for message passing between
> instances of Lua.
> 
> For Linux signals, you can use luaposix [3].  It has a kill function that
> would work.
> 
> 1. http://concurrentlua.luaforge.net/introduction.html
> 2. http://concurrentlua.luaforge.net/introduction.html
> 3. http://luaforge.net/projects/luaposix/

Thanks Robert,

I'll look into all of those things.

SteveT

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