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Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer'
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer' |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:42:18 -0500 |
RMS> This seems to give the right semantics, but having a pointer in
RMS> each thread for each DEFVAR_LISP variable makes threads rather
RMS> heavy. How many such variables are there now? I'd expect
RMS> thousands.
562.
Fewer than I thought. I suppose 2k is not a big deal compared with
a real thread that executes concurrently. So I withdraw that criticism.
However, the job of rewriting the code to work concurrently could be
enormous.
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Richard Stallman
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- Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', (continued)
- 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
Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', Richard Stallman, 2011/02/01
Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', Richard Stallman, 2011/02/01
Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', Tom Tromey, 2011/02/01
Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', Andreas Schwab, 2011/02/01
Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', Tom Tromey, 2011/02/01