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Re: CSP for Elisp?
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Tim Visher |
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Re: CSP for Elisp? |
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Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:00:37 -0400 |
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Just to be sure that we're both talking about the same thing, I'm
>> referring to ['concurrency', not 'parallelism'][pike].
>
> Yes, definitely concurrency.
>
> My understanding is that cooperative threading could be in Emacs-25, if
> a few people put enough work into it. There was a proof-of-concept
> "working" a couple years ago (IIUC Gnus could run in its own thread).
>
> For true concurrency in Elisp you might have to wait for Emacs-30.
> Tho you might get true concurrency in Emacs sooner if we switch
> to Guile.
Awesome. I can't necessarily say that I'll be able to help at all but
I'll certainly check out that branch. Are there design docs or
discussions floating around anywhere?
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