From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Schulte Subject: Re: babel and long-running computations Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 10:29:54 -0500 Message-ID: <878ur4yn4a.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87lhv4qr7l.fsf@grothesque.org> <534FA332.1080304@gmail.com> <87lhv4ut1n.fsf@grothesque.org> <878ur4dutd.fsf@gmail.com> <87ha5suntu.fsf@grothesque.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41566) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WaoWx-0000TJ-4I for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:47:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WaoWs-0004XF-GX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:47:15 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c05::230]:57015) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WaoWs-0004XB-BY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:47:10 -0400 Received: by mail-ig0-f176.google.com with SMTP id uy17so2412562igb.15 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 08:47:09 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Christoph Groth Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Christoph Groth writes: > Thorsten Jolitz writes: > >>> I=E2=80=99d love to hear about any frameworks or workflows that fulfill= these >>> requirements. >> >> here is a link about that topic: >> >> ,----------------------------------------------- >> | http://draketo.de/english/emacs/parallel-babel >> `----------------------------------------------- > > Thanks. I had found this one myself - this way of working does not seem > to allow to capture the results of the calculation in orgmode. > > So probably a better way is to have some caching machinery in the > background. I see that babel has built-in caching but there seems to be > no way to support dependencies. > > Christoph > > Hi Christoph, Currently Babel does not have support for long-running computations, however this feature has been discussed and there are previous messages on the mailing list and even some comments in the code outlining a potential implementation strategy. So this may change if/when someone finds the time and drive to tackle the implementation. Best, --=20 Eric Schulte https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte PGP: 0x614CA05D