From: luke.olbrish@cc.gatech.edu (Luke A. Olbrish)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's the problem?
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:27:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd6au3eca.fsf@gehennom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4nptevry14.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:48:23 -0500")
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, rms@gnu.org wrote:
>
>> Gnus could compute the summary in the background, piece by piece,
>> somewhat like stealth font-lock. (Not exactly the same, because
>> whenever Emacs is otherwise idle it should work full time on
>> producing summary items.)
>
> This seems to be a highly favored solution on this list because it
> fits in easily with the existing interpreter. The downside is that it
> does not use multiple processors if they exist, which has become more
> common with today's hardware.
is emacs so slow on today's hardware that it needs to be able to use
multiple processors? it would seem that we could get more use out of
work on the interpreter to make it more efficient than to get emacs to
be able to utilize multiple processors.
--
Luke Anthony Olbrish
<luke.olbrish@cc.gatech.edu>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-12 3:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 133+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-16 21:46 Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? Frank Schmitt
2003-11-17 0:49 ` Alex Schroeder
2003-11-17 4:06 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2003-11-17 4:29 ` Miles Bader
2003-11-30 16:36 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-11-30 18:01 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2003-11-30 18:39 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-11-30 18:12 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-11-30 19:40 ` Nic Ferrier
2003-12-01 16:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-02 14:45 ` Ted Lemon
2003-12-02 15:48 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-02 17:18 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-03 12:38 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-02 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-02 18:53 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-03 13:03 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-02 17:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-03 17:16 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-03 17:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-03 23:38 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-04 13:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-04 14:07 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-04 14:58 ` Nic Ferrier
2003-12-04 15:44 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-04 16:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-12-04 15:58 ` Nic Ferrier
2003-12-04 16:26 ` non-blocking sockets (was Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?) Nic Ferrier
2003-12-05 11:35 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-12-04 19:55 ` Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-04 20:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-04 20:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-04 22:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-05 12:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-05 13:06 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-12-05 14:44 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-07 23:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-08 16:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-08 17:09 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-08 18:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-08 22:02 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-08 18:25 ` What's the problem? (Was: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?) Luke Gorrie
2003-12-08 19:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-08 20:56 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-08 22:09 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-08 21:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-08 19:57 ` What's the problem? Simon Josefsson
2003-12-09 23:45 ` Juri Linkov
2003-12-10 0:58 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-10 4:35 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-10 5:38 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-10 5:51 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-10 6:34 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-10 7:19 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-11 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-11 23:09 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-12 23:55 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-13 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-13 17:29 ` Jan D.
2003-12-13 17:35 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-14 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-14 11:55 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-14 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-14 10:18 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-10 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-11 14:45 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-10 15:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-11 1:46 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-12 23:54 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-11 18:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-11 18:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-12 3:27 ` Luke A. Olbrish [this message]
2003-12-12 3:57 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-13 15:17 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-13 4:08 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-13 23:14 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-14 13:12 ` Emacs kill buffer Camm Maguire
2003-12-09 19:28 ` What's the problem? (Was: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?) Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-09 22:02 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-10 0:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-10 1:41 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-10 2:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-12 0:44 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-10 0:45 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-10 2:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-09 19:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-09 22:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-10 15:16 ` Ted Zlatanov
[not found] ` <E1AUS6B-0006KH-Hq@fencepost.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <4ny8tjryy8.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu>
[not found] ` <4nn09xm68c.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu>
2003-12-13 23:15 ` What's the problem? Richard Stallman
2003-12-14 3:21 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-05 8:58 ` Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-12-05 11:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-05 12:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-05 20:37 ` Luke A. Olbrish
2003-12-05 21:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-08 0:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-08 1:26 ` Luke A. Olbrish
2003-12-04 17:22 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-04 18:01 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-04 18:31 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-04 19:26 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-04 22:05 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-04 20:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-04 23:00 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-05 12:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-05 13:16 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-05 21:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-05 14:46 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-05 15:07 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-05 13:56 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-12-05 21:33 ` non-blocking auto-save (was: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?) Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-03 20:01 ` Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? Nic Ferrier
2003-12-03 20:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-03 21:42 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-12-04 7:33 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-04 15:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-04 18:06 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-12-04 7:33 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-04 13:14 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-04 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-06 20:58 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-07 0:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-12-07 14:52 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-07 16:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-12-07 4:16 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-07 14:53 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-07 23:00 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-11-17 19:31 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-17 22:53 ` David Masterson
2003-11-18 5:57 ` Miles Bader
2003-11-20 19:19 ` David Masterson
2003-11-22 21:19 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-18 6:52 ` John Wiegley
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