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Re: multi-threaded Emacs
From: |
Richard M Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: multi-threaded Emacs |
Date: |
Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:02:38 -0500 |
If an Elisp primitive is
waiting for some data from a file or a socket, Emacs will hang until it
is ready.
This is a real issue, but the solution is so easy
that it is not a real problem.
Activies that can wait a long time
use wait_reading_process_output
which already implements some parallelism.
Naturally we would arrange to enable thread-switching there.
IMHO, concurrent threads itself are not very useful, they can be useful
if considered a first step in the direction of a real parallelism.
If "concurrent threads" means "threads that can only switch where the
program lets them", they are very useful in Emacs for the sake of multiple
terminals.
- Re: multi-threaded Emacs, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/01
- Re: multi-threaded Emacs, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2008/12/01
- Re: multi-threaded Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/01
- Re: multi-threaded Emacs,
Richard M Stallman <=
- Re: multi-threaded Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/02
- Re: multi-threaded Emacs, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2008/12/02
- Re: multi-threaded Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/02
- Re: multi-threaded Emacs, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2008/12/03
- Re: multi-threaded Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/03
- Re: multi-threaded Emacs, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/04
- Re: multi-threaded Emacs, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2008/12/05
- Re: multi-threaded Emacs, Miles Bader, 2008/12/05
- Re: multi-threaded Emacs, Paul R, 2008/12/05
- Re: multi-threaded Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/05