Re: Concurrency via isolated process/thread

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> AFAIK, process communication is now implemented using buffers that, even
>> in the absence of coding system, index the data stream into byte array.
>
> Yes, but isn't binary data also a stream of bytes?

It is, but storing that data in buffer will involve non-trivial extra
memory allocation.

>> I am not sure if it is something that can be directly fed to memcpy (thus
>> avoiding too much of extra cost for passing Lisp data around).
>
> If you don't want the incoming data to be inserted into a buffer or
> produce a string from it, then what do you want to do with it instead?
> To use something in Emacs, we _must_ make some Lisp object out of it,
> right?

What I had in mind is, for example, memcpy wide_int_object -> child
process -> memcpy to child process own heap.

So that we do not need to go through creating a new wide_int object in
the child process.

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