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Re: [0/10] threads for emacs
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Wojciech Meyer |
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Re: [0/10] threads for emacs |
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Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:09:21 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> writes:
> Coroutines would be insanely useful for fontification. I have a half-working
> parser combinators library right now, but it's very much complicated by having
> to compile everything down to (essentially) continuation-passing style so that
> we can execute the code in small chunks and not block the UI.
You can implement co-operative threading without system threads,
assuming of course lexical binding. Your CPS is really a monadic
threading library.
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Wojciech Meyer
http://danmey.org