Re: Concurrency via isolated process/thread

[tomas]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2023 at 08:51:48AM +0800, Po Lu wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Programs that use async threads avoid global variables like the
> > plague.  Emacs is full of them.
> 
> That's not true.  Look at any modern Unix kernel, and their detailed
> locking around traditional Unix data structures, such as allproc, the
> run queue, the vnode cache, and et cetera.

The tendency, though, seems to be to avoid interlocking as much as possible
and use "transactional" data structures [1]. Which is an order of magnitude
more "interesting" :-)

But this is a kernel. I have the impression that this discussion has exploded
in scope, from taking the blocking out of "long" (network, external procs)
waits to fine-grained parallelism and multithreading.

I think the first makes sense in Emacs, the second... not so much. But that's
just one random opinion :-)

Cheers

[1] 
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/perfbook/perfbook.html
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