From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed? Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:40:04 +0200 Message-ID: <83sg5mu1hn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87im6jepft.fsf@gnus.org> <83eeh6vmg2.fsf@gnu.org> <835z2ivknw.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22726"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Peter Dean Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 23 18:41:07 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lEbgJ-0005oZ-CZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:41:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60212 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lEbgI-0003pP-F9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:41:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54772) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lEbfQ-0003GR-Dk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:40:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48671) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lEbfP-0004U2-NL; Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:40:11 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2438 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lEbfO-0007GZ-Mc; Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:40:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Peter Dean on Tue, 23 Feb 2021 17:32:09 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:265543 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 17:32:09 +0000 > From: Peter Dean > Cc: "drew.adams@oracle.com" , "stefankangas@gmail.com" , "larsi@gnus.org" , "dgutov@yandex.ru" , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" > > Thanks. I thought if a thread calls thread-yield very often (e.g. > in ever iteration of a loop) then it lets the UI process pending > events every time it yields. > > But if I understand you correctly, even if the thread calls > thread-yield explicitly, it is not a guaranteed that the UI > processes events and stay responsive. Yes, because there's no guarantee that the thread running the UI (usually, the main thread) is the one that will take the lock released by thread-yield. > If this the case then I wonder what the possible uses for threads > are. Welcome to the club.