Re: Elisp containers

[Stefan Monnier]

> SM> This would be like running Elisp in a separate process, except that it's
> SM> not a separate process, so communication between two containers can be
> SM> very efficient (e.g. you can send a buffer from one container to the other
> SM> as efficiently as you can send an integer).
> So the motivation is just efficiency?

Yes, I'm thinking of cases where there's fine-grained communication:
pass a buffer to the other container which does a quick change then
returns the buffer, etc...

> I think it costs <50ms to spawn an Emacs child process using async.el
> to load and query something in it.

Yes, maybe it's good enough, indeed.

Has anyone tried to use async for elisp--local-variables?
Same for Gnus and/or EWW?


        Stefan