Re: babel and long-running computations

[Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org> writes:

> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> I’d 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,

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