Re: [RFC] automatically retrying network connections

[Michael Albinus]

Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <address@hidden> writes:

> The latter, parellel requests, and then join the results when they all
> come back. I've come up with some bastardization of MapReduce now, but
> this would be a lot nicer if Emacs had something like
> https://github.com/chuntaro/emacs-promise built in, so I can combine
> it with a generator to emulate async/await semantics.

Emacs has threads. So you might do something like

(let (threads result)
  ;; Create a thread per request.
  (setq threads
        (mapcar
         (lambda (request)
           (make-thread
            (lambda () <do your request>))))
         <all-requests>)
  ;; Collect the results.
  (thread-yield)
  (dolist (thread threads result)
    (setq result (cons (thread-join thread) result))))

Best regards, Michael.