From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Concurrency, again Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:53:45 -0400 Message-ID: <20161017105345.2f255760@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <86k2dk77w6.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> <9D64B8EA-DB52-413D-AE6A-264416C391F3@iotcl.com> <83int1g0s5.fsf@gnu.org> <83twckekqq.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvi9a3mh.fsf@gnu.org> <20161012165911.58437154@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161012173314.799d1dc5@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <8360owaj2s.fsf@gnu.org> <20161013092701.77461800@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476716409 1768 195.159.176.226 (17 Oct 2016 15:00:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:00:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 17 16:59:53 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bw9OH-0006Ts-Qg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:59:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33710 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bw9OK-0006IL-1i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:59:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33601) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bw9Ib-00030R-98 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:54:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bw9IY-0001Ju-8B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:53:57 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([166.84.7.14]:53579) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bw9IY-0001G8-5m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 665056A8; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:53:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE2E2DE015; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:53:45 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 166.84.7.14 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208360 Archived-At: On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:25:26 -0700 John Wiegley wrote: > >>>>> "SM" == Stefan Monnier writes: > Examples of my own, coffee-break inducing moments: > > - Asking for 10,000 back articles in Gnus, with sorting and > threading on > - Applying a keyboard macro to manipulate 1000 file contents in > dired > - Hitting 'g' in Magit in a repository with tons of stashes, pull > requests, pending changes, etc. > - Waiting for ERC to replay message logs from ZNC in 20 channels > - Asking Proof General to check a file that depends on 30 other > files > > And yet, this list is *about it* for me, Imagine, though, if in the not too distant future Emacs is used by many of us as our web browser thanks to Webkit integration. That might change the game a lot. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com