From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:36:07 +0530 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20031117040607.C6C5D79B72@server2.messagingengine.com> References: <87oevbes4h.fsf@emacswiki.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069042098 30073 80.91.224.253 (17 Nov 2003 04:08:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 04:08:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 05:08:15 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ALagR-0000mY-00 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 05:08:15 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ALagR-0004m5-00 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 05:08:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ALbd9-0002Cp-FH for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:08:55 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ALbcq-00029y-TR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:08:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ALbcK-0001nm-Tb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:08:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1ALbcK-0001mT-Ia for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:08:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.111.4.26] (helo=out2.smtp.messagingengine.com) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ALaeT-00038m-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:06:13 -0500 Original-Received: from server2.messagingengine.com (server2.internal [10.202.2.133]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CEB741EEDA; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:06:09 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by server2.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id C6C5D79B72; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:06:07 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) Original-To: "Alex Schroeder" , "Frank Schmitt" X-Sasl-Enc: tI/FL++8dgSSoy5jG/FCTg 1069041967 In-Reply-To: <87oevbes4h.fsf@emacswiki.org> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17853 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17853 Hello, Is there some place/person who can elaborate the reason for not supporting multi-threading for GNU Emacs. Is it because there is no strong case for supporting/requiring a multi-threaded GNU Emacs or the sheer complexity in making GNU Emacs a multi-threaded application. with best regards, dhruva On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 01:49:34 +0100, "Alex Schroeder" said: > Frank Schmitt writes: > > > I'm wondering if there are any plans for implementing multi-threaded > > program execution into Gnu Emacs. > > There are no plans for this, and even if we'd switch to Guile, > multi-threading would not be an option, as far as I remember. The > last time I read some discussion on this was related to using Guile > and the promise of multi-threading it would offer. ________________________________________ Dhruva Krishnamurthy http://schemer.fateback.com/ General:www@furby.fastmail.fm GNU/FSF:gnu@furby.fastmail.fm GNU Emacs:gnu.emacs@furby.fastmail.fm