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 19:57:37 +0300 Message-ID: <83twcayku6.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> <20161017105345.2f255760@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <83y41nx8l6.fsf@gnu.org> <20161017123459.5ded9408@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476723531 8731 195.159.176.226 (17 Oct 2016 16:58:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:58:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Perry E. Metzger" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 17 18:58:47 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 1bwBEy-0007Ds-Rw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:58:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34512 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwBF0-0007aY-Vh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:58:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42240) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwBES-0007Zz-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:57:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwBEO-0004rL-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46998) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwBEO-0004rF-BH; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:57:44 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1730 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bwBEN-0005v1-0d; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:57:43 -0400 In-reply-to: <20161017123459.5ded9408@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (perry@piermont.com) 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:208370 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:34:59 -0400 > From: "Perry E. Metzger" > Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:07:33 +0300 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:53:45 -0400 > > > From: "Perry E. Metzger" > > > Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > > > > 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. > > > > Asynchronous network communications are supported already on master, > > so I'm not sure what problems you see in that direction. > > Every open browser tab (should I say "window", this being emacs?) can > potentially be doing all sorts of computation in the background via > JavaScript, and that could potentially momentarily hang the editor if > they're sharing an underlying thread. So you are saying the problem is only with URLs that invoke JavaScript? Good.