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Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer'
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Helmut Eller |
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Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer' |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:28:02 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
* Stefan Monnier [2011-02-01 15:43] writes:
>> Or, instead of the locks-and-condition-variables approach, go the CSP
>> route and have channels and channel-select. This idea is making a
>> comeback, maybe it would fit well in Emacs Lisp.
>
> Erlang-style concurrency is nice and clean, but I'm not sure it'll
> integrate well with existing code which stomps over a global state all
> the time. This doesn't mean it won't work. If we can make it work
> something like "one agent per buffer" and turn `set-buffer' into a kind
> of message maybe we could get some good results, but it seems tricky.
Erlang-style concurrency would be awesome. Where can I vote for it :-)
Is there a way to evaluate the different approaches against each other?
What are the uses cases where concurrency should be used in the future?
Helmut
- concurrency suggestions for Gnus (was: Patch for fields of `struct buffer'), (continued)
- concurrency suggestions for Gnus (was: Patch for fields of `struct buffer'), Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/07
- Re: concurrency suggestions for Gnus, Miles Bader, 2011/02/07
- Re: concurrency suggestions for Gnus, Andy Moreton, 2011/02/08
- Re: concurrency suggestions for Gnus, Justin Lilly, 2011/02/08
- bloom filters (was: concurrency suggestions for Gnus), Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/08
- bloom filters (was: concurrency suggestions for Gnus), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/02/08
- Re: concurrency suggestions for Gnus, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2011/02/10
Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/02/01
Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', Stefan Monnier, 2011/02/01
- Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer',
Helmut Eller <=
- Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', Tom Tromey, 2011/02/06
- Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', Tom Tromey, 2011/02/08
- Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', Helmut Eller, 2011/02/08
- Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', Tom Tromey, 2011/02/11
- Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', Helmut Eller, 2011/02/12
Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', Stefan Monnier, 2011/02/08