Re: Concurrency, again

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:34:59 -0400
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:07:33 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:53:45 -0400
> > > From: "Perry E. Metzger" <address@hidden>
> > > Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> > >   
> > > > And yet, this list is *about it* for me,  
> > > 
> > > Imagine, though, if in the not too distant future Emacs is used by
> > > many of us as our web browser thanks to Webkit integration. That
> > > might change the game a lot.  
> > 
> > Asynchronous network communications are supported already on master,
> > so I'm not sure what problems you see in that direction.
> 
> Every open browser tab (should I say "window", this being emacs?) can
> potentially be doing all sorts of computation in the background via
> JavaScript, and that could potentially momentarily hang the editor if
> they're sharing an underlying thread.

So you are saying the problem is only with URLs that invoke
JavaScript?  Good.