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Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE
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tomas |
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Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE |
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Sun, 12 Mar 2023 07:33:23 +0100 |
On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 05:45:15PM -0800, Jim Porter wrote:
[...]
> In any case, working on this would likely be a big help for Emacs. One of
> the more-common things I see people wish for in Emacs is "threading". I
> think this is probably a mistaken wish (Emacs generally doesn't use enough
> CPU to saturate a core), but what they really want is for fewer operations
> that block for a long time. If it were easier to divide up long-running
> tasks into small chunks, that would go a long way towards solving these
> sorts of issues.
Oooh. You made my day :)
> (In theory, you could even get real multithreading this way, if you could
> divide up your task in a way that Emacs could be sure some chunk can be
> offloaded onto another thread.)
Exactly: those are two different building blocks, and most useful
when available separately.
Cheers
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- continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE, Thomas Koch, 2023/03/11
- Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE, Jim Porter, 2023/03/11
- Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE,
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- Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE, Karthik Chikmagalur, 2023/03/14
- Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE, Jim Porter, 2023/03/14
- Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE, Stefan Monnier, 2023/03/15
- Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE, Tomas Hlavaty, 2023/03/16
- Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE, Stefan Monnier, 2023/03/16
- Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE, Jim Porter, 2023/03/17
- Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE, Tomas Hlavaty, 2023/03/25
- Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE, Tomas Hlavaty, 2023/03/26
- Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE, Tomas Hlavaty, 2023/03/28
- Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE, Stefan Monnier, 2023/03/29