From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#38807: [Feature request]: Support lisp workers like web workers. Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 21:19:50 +0200 Message-ID: <831rslmxih.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83o8vpn8g1.fsf@gnu.org> <87mub9u0ld.fsf@gmx.de> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="134096"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: netjune@outlook.com, 38807@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 30 20:20:12 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1im0aK-000Ykz-3B for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2019 20:20:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35930 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1im0aI-0008KP-GA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:20:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45403) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1im0aB-0008KG-Ef for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:20:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1im0aA-0002QB-GA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:20:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:55676) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1im0aA-0002Q1-DZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:20:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1im0aA-0000YE-7A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:20:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:20:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 38807 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 38807-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B38807.15777335922099 (code B ref 38807); Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 38807) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Dec 2019 19:19:52 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33416 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1im0a0-0000Xn-CA for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:19:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35804) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1im0Zx-0000XX-MW for 38807@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:19:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39800) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1im0Zs-00027V-7e; Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:19:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2968 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1im0Zr-0006x5-N6; Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:19:44 -0500 In-reply-to: <87mub9u0ld.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:31:26 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:173955 Archived-At: > From: Michael Albinus > Cc: HaiJun Zhang , 38807@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:31:26 +0100 > > The point seems to be that there is a dedicated UI thread. That we don't > have (yet) in Emacs, and I like this idea. We do have that on MS-Windows. Except that you'll be surprised how much of "UI" in Emacs cannot be done in a separate thread, mainly because the Lisp machine is under such complete control of what the UI does, and you cannot run several instances of the Lisp machine simultaneously and asynchronously.