From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: alexanderm@web.de, yyoncho@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Questions about throw-on-input
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 17:23:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835zcy61e9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkTmvkR2vY2+5kGGead_CE3KUFTUokCXm8ihcwjnO0uSDg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Philipp Stephani on Thu, 14 May 2020 10:32:44 +0200)
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 10:32:44 +0200
> Cc: Alexander Miller <alexanderm@web.de>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, yyoncho <yyoncho@gmail.com>
>
> > Your ideal world seems to be based on an editor design that is very
> > different from what Emacs is. The absolute majority of objects which
> > an average Lisp program manipulates are globally visible -- buffers,
> > windows, frames, global variables, the obarray, etc., and doing that
> > in non-blocking ways is not really trivial.
> >
>
> And that's what I'd call one of the biggest problems in current
> Emacs's design. Much of the development in programming practices over
> the last few decades has been moving away from global mutable state,
> in order to increase robustness and predictability, and also to make
> concurrency without subprocesses possible.
My point is that adding multithreading to Emacs will need rethinking
and redesigning many core features, so it is a large job.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-14 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-10 13:47 Questions about throw-on-input Alexander Miller
2020-05-11 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 17:39 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-11 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 18:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 19:48 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-11 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-12 22:33 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-13 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-13 18:47 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-14 8:32 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-05-14 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-05-14 14:37 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-05-14 16:56 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-15 3:21 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-15 3:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 8:19 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-15 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 16:46 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-15 17:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 17:50 ` yyoncho
2020-05-15 18:44 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-15 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 19:46 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-05-15 18:00 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-15 17:35 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-15 19:47 ` chad
2020-05-16 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-12 2:39 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-12 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-05-09 13:09 Alexander Miller
2020-05-10 11:11 ` yyoncho
2020-05-07 7:31 Ivan Yonchovski
2020-05-07 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-07 14:28 ` Ivan Yonchovski
2020-05-07 21:11 ` yyoncho
2020-05-08 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-08 4:36 ` yyoncho
2020-05-08 4:43 ` yyoncho
2020-05-12 4:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-08 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 11:23 ` Ivan Yonchovski
2020-05-08 11:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 11:55 ` yyoncho
2020-05-08 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-08 18:04 ` yyoncho
2020-05-07 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-07 15:36 ` Ivan Yonchovski
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