Re: Multithreading, again and again

[Helmut Eller]

* Juri Linkov [2011-10-17 21:57] writes:

>> I don't think there is such a consensus, but better support for
>> concurrency is something I consider important.  It is currently much too
>> difficult to implement "asynchronous article fetch" and things like that.
>
> "Asynchronous article fetch" could be implemented with a simpler approach
> to run code in a "sandbox" similarly to HTML5 "workers" that run
> computationally expensive scripts in the background independently of any
> user interface scripts that allows for long-running scripts to be
> executed without yielding to keep the application responsive.  More at:
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/workers.html

I had proposed that here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-02/msg00383.html
but it was pretty much ridiculed.

Helmut