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Re: Threads in emacs implementation
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Threads in emacs implementation |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:56:31 +0900 |
On 6/17/05, Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote:
> > This is not really true for typical elisp programs -- global variables
> > (especially buffer-local global variables) are used extremely often,
> > and in almost every case must be "truly global" (visible in all
> > threads).
>
> At the time of the fork, the thread will pick up all globals. I was
> talking about important globals that are modified after the fork. At
> least my experience has been that after you initialize Emacs, it's
> rare to modify globally important variables unless you are
> specifically customizing Emacs.
No, it's _extremely_ common.
A huge amount of the actively maintained state in Emacs is stored in
global variables (often buffer-local of course, but still "global" as
far as threads are concerned).
-Miles
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Re: Threads in emacs implementation, Richard Stallman, 2005/06/09
- Re: Threads in emacs implementation, Ted Zlatanov, 2005/06/10
- Re: Threads in emacs implementation, Masatake YAMATO, 2005/06/11
- Re: Threads in emacs implementation, Richard Stallman, 2005/06/11
- Re: Threads in emacs implementation, Ted Zlatanov, 2005/06/15
- Re: Threads in emacs implementation, Miles Bader, 2005/06/15
- Re: Threads in emacs implementation, Ted Zlatanov, 2005/06/16
- Re: Threads in emacs implementation,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Threads in emacs implementation, Ted Zlatanov, 2005/06/17
- Re: Threads in emacs implementation, Richard Stallman, 2005/06/17
- Re: Threads in emacs implementation, Ted Zlatanov, 2005/06/20
- Re: Threads in emacs implementation, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/06/21
- Re: Threads in emacs implementation, Nic Ferrier, 2005/06/21
- Re: Threads in emacs implementation, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/06/22
Re: Threads in emacs implementation, Miles Bader, 2005/06/19
Re: Threads in emacs implementation, Nic Ferrier, 2005/06/20
Re: Threads in emacs implementation, David Kastrup, 2005/06/20
Re: Threads in emacs implementation, Nic Ferrier, 2005/06/20