From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Concurrency, again Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:10:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83eg3fzesf.fsf@gnu.org> 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> <83r37i2mdx.fsf@gnu.org> <83a8e423w6.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476684664 6278 195.159.176.226 (17 Oct 2016 06:11:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 06:11:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 17 08:11:00 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 1bw18T-0000vE-W2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 08:10:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bw18V-0001pV-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 02:10:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59108) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bw18O-0001pN-7T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 02:10:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bw18L-0003wd-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 02:10:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38848) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bw18K-0003wX-UK; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 02:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3242 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bw18B-0000sk-U2; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 02:10:40 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:43:14 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:208347 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:43:14 -0400 > > > > Are such bugs why the "concurrency" branch is not ready? > > > We don't really know, because the branch was never seriously used. > > We could do something about that. Can we modify them so that > you need to set a variable or you get the current default > behavior? Then it could be merged in, and people could try it. > > > That's what the branch does: if a Lisp program doesn't create any > > threads, it will run normally, as in today's Emacs, using a single > > main thread. > > Maybe the flag (or flags) could control whether these applications > create threads. That could probably be done, but it still needs someone motivated enough to work on that. Volunteers are welcome.