Re: About GSoC 2013

[xfq]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Jambunathan K <address@hidden> wrote:
> Stefan Monnier - the Emacs maintainer - has already indicated two
> projects.
>
> Both concern overlays.  A very dedicated and an ambitious contributor
> can, by pushing the limits, can even get intimate with the display
> engine - apparently one of the holy grails.
>
> 1. Using interval trees for overlays
>    Programming language: C
>
>    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-08/msg00308.html
>
> 2. Introduction of "text planes".
>    Programming language:  Mostly Emacs Lisp, may involve some C
>
>    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-10/msg00177.html
>
> For the most ambitious of the students,
>
> 3. Improving the performance of the display engine particularly for a
>    typical Orgmode workload.
>
>    Focus on Eli's followups in this thread.
>
>    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-04/msg00696.html.

Thanks for these pointers, I'll see them later.

> There may be some requirements on concurrent Emacs side.  I have never
> seen a self-contained, well-defined work item myself.

The concurrency concept is dimness to me: which form of concurrency
(locks, transactions, younameit)?

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Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.