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From: Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: babel, executing code in background process
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:55:42 -0700
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To: Erik Garrison <erik.garrison@gmail.com>
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Hi Erik,

Currently there is not (to my knowledge) any support for asynchronous
code block evaluation.  The one possible exception could be ob-screen
which I mention only because I don't really know anything about it.

This would certainly be a worthwhile feature to add to Org-mode code
blocks, however a good implementation (easy to use, robust and
cross-language) will be non-trivial to implement.

Best,

Erik Garrison <erik.garrison@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm just starting to use org-mode and babel to structure exploratory data
> analysis which I do for my work.
>
> One issue that I've run into is that many of the queries I have to issue
> will take a very long time to complete.
>
> Is there any method I could use to execute them in a background process?
>
> Thanks,
> Erik

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