From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Dynamic loading progress Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:48:34 -0500 Message-ID: <86zizdczhp.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <83r3trulse.fsf@gnu.org> <54E0D7E0.305@87.69.4.28> <83h9unukbg.fsf@gnu.org> <54E0DEF8.7020901@dancol> <83egpruiyp.fsf@gnu.org> <54E0FF93.2000104@dancol.org> <5610ED13.1010406@dancol.org> <56117F37.9060808@dancol.org> <56259FDD.8040401@dancol.org> <87zizeme8k.fsf@tromey.com> <5625B166.3080104@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445356199 30892 80.91.229.3 (20 Oct 2015 15:49:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:49:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?Q?Aur=C3=A9lien?= Aptel , Philipp Stephani , Tom Tromey , Eli Zaretskii , Emacs development discussions To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 20 17:49:48 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoZAF-000523-Lz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 17:49:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46661 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoZAF-0007XX-6P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:49:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49498) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoZ9x-0007Wx-3w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:49:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoZ9t-0007Dt-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:49:08 -0400 Original-Received: from gproxy9-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com ([69.89.20.122]:45481) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoZ9t-0007Cy-6a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:49:05 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 19789 invoked by uid 0); 20 Oct 2015 15:48:50 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO CMOut01) (10.0.90.82) by gproxy9.mail.unifiedlayer.com with SMTP; 20 Oct 2015 15:48:50 -0000 Original-Received: from host114.hostmonster.com ([74.220.207.114]) by CMOut01 with id XToe1r00L2UdiVW01TohVE; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:48:49 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=VOBOwb/X c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=CQdxDb2CKd3SRg4I0/XZPQ==:117 a=CQdxDb2CKd3SRg4I0/XZPQ==:17 a=DsvgjBjRAAAA:8 a=f5113yIGAAAA:8 a=9i_RQKNPAAAA:8 a=hEr_IkYJT6EA:10 a=x_XPkuGwIRMA:10 a=5lJygRwiOn0A:10 a=KxCsr730AAAA:8 a=os3Y929wZ05t_1tn3dkA:9 Original-Received: from [76.218.37.33] (port=58631 helo=TAKVER2) by host114.hostmonster.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoZ9T-0001vv-PX; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:48:40 -0600 In-Reply-To: <5625B166.3080104@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:13:42 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (windows-nt) X-Identified-User: {2442:host114.hostmonster.com:stephele:stephe-leake.org} {sentby:smtp auth 76.218.37.33 authed with stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org} X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 69.89.20.122 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:192192 Archived-At: Daniel Colascione writes: > A runtime describes Emacs as a whole. It lives forever and has no thread > affinity. An environment represents a specific stack activation of an > Emacs module function. It has thread affinity. Because environments have > thread affinity, we can very cheaply store local references, error > context, and whatever else we want in them. Please add this to comments in the API, so we don't forget. or add a module_design.texi, for this and similar design info. -- -- Stephe