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Can you implement IPC with this system? It seems wrong to relate this to tuple spaces otherwise.
by panic 8y ago
Can you implement IPC with this system? It seems wrong to relate this to tuple spaces otherwise.
- zackbloom 8y agoPut the target channel name and a message id at the front of each key and you can use a tuple space for IPC.
- panic 8y agoWhat I mean is: can a process block until a particular key appears, then resume execution after receiving the associated value? That's the main differentiating feature of a tuple space, and it wasn't clear to me whether this system supports that or not (or even has a concept of a process).
- kentonv 8y agoNo, that's not supported at present, but that's an interesting idea. Workers don't have the concept of processes. The unit of compute is an individual event -- e.g. handling an individual HTTP request. So we'd have to augment it a bit, but we can probably come up with something useful.
- _pmf_ 8y agoA poor man's IPC, like HTTP and HTML is a poor man's application platform ...