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From: "Rocco Caputo" <troc@shadow.net>
To: "Felix Gallo" <fgallo@wellspring.us.dg.com>,
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On Thu, 06 Feb 1997 12:52:56 +0000, Felix Gallo wrote:
>Felix's Perl-related Metaproblems:
>
>1. Perl is not event-driven, so programs which wish
>to make objects available to the network must manually
>interrupt their control flow to determine if a remote
>object transaction request is pending.
I'm writing a MUD in perl. The object language faces
some of the same issues as perl, but I think there are
ways around them (in the MUD language and in perl). In
the MUD server, objects' methods must be compiled into
perl bytecode. They must be multitasked/multithreaded
so that bad code won't hang the server, and object
authors usually should not have to think about events.
For example, this "bad" MUD code will be legal. Don't
worry, I move on to perl in just a minute.
count = 10000000
while count--
say "hello, world! enter some text: "
getline some_text
if some_text eq 'quit'
last
endif
endwhile
say "\ngoodbye, world!\n"
This needs to be compiled to perl bytecode at runtime.
The MUD bytecode compiler first parses and syntax
checks an object's source. If everything passes, it
builds a perl sub definition in a string. This
sub-in-a-string is treated as an assembly language for
perl bytecode. The server runs eval() to assemble the
string-o-perl into bytecodes, and then the resulting sub
can be called over and over without additional eval()
overhead. (Thanks, Silmaril!)
Making that bad loop work in an event-driven server is
a little harder than making bytecodes. The MUD compiler
will build perl assembly as event-driven state machines.
It can do this by noting the locations of branch
destinations and returns from blocking calls. Each of
these locations starts a new atomic "state", and an
"instruction pointer" determines which state to run next.
Here's the event-driven perl "assembly" for that sample
MUD code. It's not very efficient, but it serves for
illustration.
sub aaaaa {
# assumes the existence of a tasking/event kernel
my $task = shift;
my $namespace = $task->{"namespace"};
my $ip = $task->{'instruction pointer'}; # state
# initial entry point
if ($ip == 0) {
$namespace->{'count'} = 10000000 ;
$task->{'instruction pointer'} = 1;
}
# top of while loop
elsif ($ip == 1) {
if ( $namespace->{'count'} -- ) {
$task->say( qq(hello, world! enter some text: ) ) ;
# soft block on 'getline'
$task->{'blocking'} = 'getline';
$task->{'instruction pointer'} = 2;
}
else {
$task->{'instruction pointer'} = 3;
}
}
# "return" from getline
elsif ($ip == 2) {
$namespace->{'some_text'} = $task->getline();
if ( $namespace->{'some_text'} eq q(quit) ) {
$task->{'instruction pointer'} = 3;
}
else {
$task->{'instruction pointer'} = 1;
}
}
# after endwhile
elsif ($ip == 3) {
$task->say( qq(\ngoodbye, world!\n) ) ;
$task->{'instruction pointer'} = -1; # signals end
}
}
The main select/event loop would have some code to run tasks
round-robin. Something like this, but probably including code
to deal with priorities.
if ($next = shift(@task_queue)) {
if (($next->{'blocking'}) || ($next->run() != -1)) {
push(@task_queue, $next);
}
else {
undef $next;
}
}
And starting a new task might look like this:
$task = new Task($tasking_kernel, "count = ... world!\n");
if ($task->has_errors()) {
$task->display_errors();
undef $task;
}
# otherwise the task has been compiled and registered
# with the $tasking_kernel
Anyway, that's how I'm writing portable multitasking for a
syntactically simple MUD language. To make this work for
perl, there would be a standard tasking package, and perl's
bytecode compiler would need to modify its output to work
with the package. Sort of like how the perl debugger works.
Just some ideas to ponder.
Rocco
<troc@shadow.net>
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Gary, et al,
Almost a year ago, I quietly announced something called "Serv + Face".
Maybe my announcement was a little too quiet.
Serv is a fork-less, select-based framework of event server classes.
It provides a high level interface to select(), and a very high level
interface to TCP client and server socket operations. It does not fork.
Face is the start of a curses-based UI framework that can run alone
or use Serv as its main loop.
The code and a rough draft of the documentation are available from
<http://www.shadow.net/~troc/perlstuff.html>. If this code is useful
to anyone, I'd sure like to know.
Rocco
<troc@shadow.net>
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 01:36:35 +0200, Gary Howland wrote:
>
>Select is fine. What we (the "event evangelists") want is a "level above"
>select. When we have a chunk of data to send to x streams, we don't want to
>have to call select, see which stream is ready for writing, work out how
>many bytes we can send, send those bytes, shorten our buffers by that amount
>of bytes, and loop back to select. We just want to send the data. And we
>want to do this without forking.
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On Thu, 06 Feb 1997 12:52:56 +0000, Felix Gallo wrote:
>Felix's Perl-related Metaproblems:
>
>3. Perl references are monotheistic. One fancies that saying
>$x = \{ http://perl.com/myperlobject }; would do the right thing,
>but the established structure of Perl seems to make this difficult.
There are tied hash packages that implement object naming
and message passing between named objects within the same
process. The packages allow invocations like:
$msg{'desktop,paint'} = 1;
$msg{'name entry,value'} = 'J. K. Cohen';
$active_flag = $msg{'active checkbox,value'};
The packages also do broadcasting to subsets of the object
dictionary. Hash stores and fetches are sent to or taken
from all the objects that match the supplied name. So to
clear the value of all objects that have 'entry' in their
names:
$msg{'entry,value'} = '';
That clears 'name entry' and 'age entry' and 'salary entry'
and ....
Anyway, the names could be extended to work across sockets
in the presence of a standard select/event loop:
$gnats_queue = $msg{'//somewhere.com:4242/stickynote/gnat?count'};
print "gnat has $gnats_queue unread sticky notes.\n";
$message = 'hello, world!';
$msg{'//somewhere.org:4242/stickynote/merlyn?queue'} = $message;
Man pages for ObjDict::Names and ObjDict::Messages are
on-line at <http://www.nexi.com/troc>. The code is inside
a larger package, Serv+Face, at
<http://www.shadow.net/~troc/perlstuff.html>.
Just some ideas to ponder.
Rocco
<troc@shadow.net>
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// =========================================================================
// UBERSYS.H
// UberSys definitions and classes.
// =========================================================================
#include <io.h>
#include <dir.h>
#include <dos.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <alloc.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <share.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <setjmp.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <values.h>
#include <fstream.h>
#include <iomanip.h>
#include <iostream.h>
#include <sys\stat.h>
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Constants, limits, and the like.
#define SIZE_UID 9 // including NULL terminator
#define SIZE_PWD 26 // including NULL terminator
#define SIZE_MAXSTR 0x1000 // 4k string sizes (max)
#define SIZE_MAXPATH 0x0050 // 160 chars for max path
#define SIZE_MAXLINE 0x00A0 // 160 characters per line
#define COUNT_LINES 0x0200 // 512 editor lines
#define USREV 0x0200 // version 02.00
#define DRV "D:" // drive it runs on
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Helper macros.
// build a 20-bit address from segoff
#define A20(x) (((ULI)FP_SEG(x)<<4)+(ULI)FP_OFF(x))
// make a normalized pointer from A20
#define A32(x) MK_FP((UINT)((x)>>4), (UINT)((x)&0x0F))
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#define NORM(x) A32(A20(x))
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template <class T>
T max(T x, T y)
{
return((x>y)?x:y);
};
// minimum of two values
template <class T>
T min(T x, T y)
{
return((x<y)?x:y);
};
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#define I asm
#define FATAL fatalerr(thisFile,__LINE__)
#define FATALH(x) fatalerr(x,__LINE__)
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# define ERRS if(errorstream)*errorstream<<setiosflags(ios::uppercase)<<hex
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# define FLINS thisFile,__LINE__,
# define FLINT char *file, int line,
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# define VALID(dp) CZE(aValid(aHeader(dp)));
# define DUMP aDump(FLINC);
#else
# define ERRS cerr
# define CRV(x) x
# define CNE(x) x
# define FLINE
# define FLINC
# define FLINP
# define FLINQ void
# define FLINI
# define FLINJ
# define FLINS
# define FLINT
# define DEB(x)
# define DEB2(x,y)
# define NEW
# define DEL
# define WHEREAMI
# define ORPHANS
# define VALID(dp)
# define DUMP
#endif
#define FALSE 0
#define TRUE (~FALSE)
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------
void fatalerr(char *file, int line);
extern char *buildbuf;
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Paradox Engine header
#include "pxengine.h"
// Error stream if debugging.
DEB(extern ofstream *errorstream;)
// Message file header.
#include "general.h"
// Type definitions.
#include "mytypes.h"
// Database functions.
#include "pxe.h"
#include "users.h"
#include "ipx.h"
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#include "pcodes.h"
#include "gsbl.h"
#include "arena.h"
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#include "port.h"
#include "msgfile.h"
#include "task.h"
#include "tam.h"
#include "qualpath.h"
#include "xmm.h"
#include "var.h"
#include "safepxi.h"
#include "template.h"
#include "token.h"
#include "stack.h"
#include "objfile.h"
#include "ofm.h"
#include "srcfile.h"
#include "pmachine.h"
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#include "hangup.h"
#include "idle.h"
#include "login.h"
#include "editor.h"
#include "cmdline.h"
#include "console.h"
#include "dirlist.h"
#include "compiler.h"
#include "disasm.h"
#include "runtime.h"
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------
extern TAM *tam;
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