Re: Math and GMake

[Ken Smith]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:03:39PM -0400, Noel Yap wrote:
> Ken Smith wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:27:07PM -0400, Noel Yap wrote:
> >I actually came up with a fairly exciting idea over the weekend.  Here's
> >the basic idea.
> >
> >Fork a perl script which opens a domain socket.  Put the domain socket
> >in the build directory somewhere.
> >
> >Write RPC style requests to the domain socket and have the perl script
> >feed back answers through the same channel.
> >
> >This works with the text processing angle because gmake only cares about
> >text.  It also works with the performance angle because you are only
> >forking once.  From then on, you're basically just writing and reading a
> >file (the domain socket).
> >
> >What do you think?
> 
> This sounds pretty neat, but won't you have to shell out to be able to send 
> requests to the server?

That's true but it will just be once per request and once per response.
Perhaps it is still too heavyweight.

Ken