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Re: Need help embedding Guile
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Olivier Dion |
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Re: Need help embedding Guile |
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Tue, 21 Dec 2021 17:39:56 -0500 |
On Tue, 21 Dec 2021, Dimitris Papavasiliou <dpapavas@protonmail.ch> wrote:
> The idea is that the C++ program, after some initialization, loads and
> evaluates
> one or more Scheme files (provided by the user as command line arguments).
> During the course of their evaluation, these create objects on the C++ side
> (representing the work that is to be done) and, once they're evaluated the
> work
> of Guile is done. At that point, ideally, I'd like to deinitialize/terminate
> Guile, both to reclaim resources which are no longer necessary and to ensure
> that it plays no further role in the execution of the rest of the program. As
> far as I can see, this is not possible.
>From this description, what I understand is that you want to use Scheme
as a configuration file for batching the operations to be done in a
second phase in C++. However, I failed to see why you need to finalize
these objects since you're going to use them in your second phase?
> If anyone has any comments or ideas, they would be most welcome.
One way I think of would be to fork the process and create your C++
objects in a shared memory area between the parent and the child. Once
Guile is done reading your inputs, the child process dies and all its
memory is reclaimed by the OS.
> I'd appreciate some confirmation of the validity of my approach and
> also some tips on a couple of loose ends.
I think it's a valid approach.
--
Olivier Dion
Polymtl
- Need help embedding Guile, Dimitris Papavasiliou, 2021/12/21
- Re: Need help embedding Guile, Maxime Devos, 2021/12/21
- Re: Need help embedding Guile, Maxime Devos, 2021/12/21
- Re: Need help embedding Guile, Maxime Devos, 2021/12/21
- Re: Need help embedding Guile, Dimitris Papavasiliou, 2021/12/21
- Re: Need help embedding Guile, Olivier Dion, 2021/12/22
- Re: Need help embedding Guile, Maxime Devos, 2021/12/22
- Re: Need help embedding Guile, Maxime Devos, 2021/12/22
- Re: Need help embedding Guile, Dimitris Papavasiliou, 2021/12/22
- Re: Need help embedding Guile, Mikael Djurfeldt, 2021/12/22
- Re: Need help embedding Guile, Mikael Djurfeldt, 2021/12/23
- Re: Need help embedding Guile, Olivier Dion, 2021/12/29