Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE

[Jim Porter]

On 4/2/2023 9:03 PM, Po Lu wrote:
> I have not looked carefully at this thread, but I would hope that if
> people are discussing a way to add multiprocessing to Emacs, we settle
> on separate threads of execution executing in parallel, with all the
> interlocking necessary to make that happen, like in most Unix thread
> implementations.

Indeed, one of my hopes is to have a way to package some task so that 
(eventually) it can be run on another thread, and everything Just Works. 
From one of my previous messages on the subject[1]:

On 3/11/2023 5:45 PM, Jim Porter wrote:
> 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.
>
> (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.)

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-03/msg00472.html