[slime-devel] Asynchronous debugging

[Helmut Eller]

Luke Gorrie <luke at bluetail.com> writes:

> In a single-threaded SERVE-EVENT-based system, it might be nice if
> SLIME goes into an infinite loop as Helmut says, but is calling
> SYS:SERVE-EVENT instead of READ-FROM-EMACS. i.e. the usual SERVE-EVENT
> loop is running and serving the REPL, webserver, etc, but all within
> SLIME's dynamic binding setup. When the SLIME socket closes, we throw
> back out. (Or is that what you meant, Helmut?)

Yes, that's what I meant.  I just want to note that CMUCL calls
SERVE-EVENT automatically if the file-descriptor is non-blocking.

Helmut.