[Swift-devel] returning primitive values from apps

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 11:26 -0500, Yadu Nand wrote:
> Hi Mihael,
> 
> If say the app has the following syntax :
>            app (int ret_value) do_math (int x, int y) {
>                  add x y stdout=ret_value;
>            }
> 
>  Would this (hypothetical) syntax entirely avoid the overhead of writing
> several small files as
> we see in larger runs ?

Maybe. If you can re-direct stdout straight to memory (only some
providers support this), then you could read the value without writing
files on the client side.