Ah, I see now. Thanks for going deeper on that. I did eventually find the RPC stuff for Go, and thought that that might be interesting to implement.
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Joan Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > "Each component runs in its own private address space. Inter-component > communication is based on Native Client’s reliable datagram service, > the IMC (Inter-Module Communications). For communications between the > browser and a NaCl module, Native Client provides two options: a > Simple RPC facility (SRPC), and the Netscape Plugin Application > Programming Interface (NPAPI), both implemented on top of the IMC. The > IMC also provides shared memory segments and shared synchronization > objects, intended to avoid messaging overhead for high-volume or > high-frequency communications." [1] > > The Native Client modules can communicate with the browser using > either NPAPI or simple RPC (SRPC) [2] so there would be that implement > that in Haskell. > > > [1] > http://nativeclient.googlecode.com/svn/data/docs_tarball/nacl/googleclient/native_client/documentation/nacl_paper.pdf > [2] > http://nativeclient.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/native_client/documentation/npapi.html > > > 2009/12/29 David Leimbach <[email protected]>: > > I guess I'm confused by what it means to "support" this in a language. > > My understanding is this is using lightweight virtualization technology > > (perhaps via segment register hacks on x86, and something else on ARM) to > > provide a safe sandbox to run native code in a browser. If I had to > guess, > > I'd say you could run an entire virtualized OS in there, similar to the > way > > it was done for vx32 with the Plan 9 port to it. (9vx is a port of the > plan > > 9 operating system to vx32, allowing it to run as a user process on > linux, > > freebsd, and Mac OS X) > > Are you talking about porting the GHC Haskell runtime to NaCL? If so, > then > > I think I understand, but the language itself doesn't really need to do > > anything special to support this as far as I can tell. > > Dave > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Joan Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Native CLient (NaCl) [1] is a technology very cool which lets to run > >> native code in web applications, and it's being integrated in some > >> languages as Python [2]. Go [3] already has rudimentary support for > >> Native Client (and it's logical since that both technologies are from > >> Google) > >> > >> I hope that Haskell also gets support for NaCl and doesn't loose this > >> train else a language as Go could get every time more users that until > >> now they had gone to Haskell or Erlang mainly for its concurrency. > >> > >> > >> [1] http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ > >> [2] > >> > http://lackingrhoticity.blogspot.com/2009/06/python-standard-library-in-native.html > >> [3] http://golang.org/pkg/exp/nacl/ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > > >
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