Re: [Pydev-code] threaded jython completion server and console.

[Fabio Z. <fa...@es...>]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Kostas Georgiou <geo...@gm...>wrote:

> Hello again,
> I would appreciate it if you could comment on this subject.
> I also wanted some help on pointing out the classes that implement the
> client-server functionality of completion and console, to investigate the
> possibility of implementing it.
>
> Thanx in advance
> Kostas
>
>
> Hi again,
>> >So, that would be more for speed right?
>> yessss. Probably it will get some speed up, don't you think?
>>
>> >I must say that I'm not sure that
>> >this approach is feasible because when you're gathering completions, you
>> >actually want to use a different Python or Jython interpreter (and not
>> embed
>> >all into the Eclipse VM),
>> putting it in a thread with different classloader (equinox magic) is
>> making it actually a different interpreter, or not?? Is just that you should
>> do all the initialization of package additions manually (addJar, addDir,
>> etc).
>>
>> >and making it a Thread you wouldn't have access to that.
>> can you explain it a bit more please. The communication could be done
>> through a shared variable, a pipe stream, asychronous method invocation or
>> something else.
>>
>> >What do you think?
>> thinking.... :-)So you think is difficult?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kostas
>>
>
>

Hi Kostas,

I don't think it's difficult, but I do think that it should still be a
spawned shell and not the same process as Eclipse because client code (which
you'll import to do the completions) could end up halting the Eclipse VM
(which doesn't seem like a nice thing for me).

Thoughts?

Cheers,

Fabio

p.s.: The communication for the completions is currently done in the
AbstractShell class.