From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:39:56 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <874qwlvgxv.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> References: <87oevbes4h.fsf@emacswiki.org> <20031117040607.C6C5D79B72@server2.messagingengine.com> <87ekvpx18d.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> <200311301801.hAUI1O43027627@hillux.cpqd.com.br> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070217736 30660 80.91.224.253 (30 Nov 2003 18:42:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:42:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 30 19:42:14 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AQWWM-0007wp-00 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:42:14 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AQWWL-0005pe-00 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:42:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AQXTM-0002UA-KD for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:43:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AQXSX-0002D2-FA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:42:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AQXS1-00024a-61 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:42:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AQXRp-0001h7-As for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:41:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AQWUN-00056H-00 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:40:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AQWUJ-000564-00 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:40:07 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AQWUJ-0007ux-00 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:40:07 +0100 Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6fZg06/1clTpn2yLh36R43xVRSU= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18226 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18226 Vinicius Jose Latorre writes: > I also don't know a lot about threads, but CHILL (old) language also has a > mechanism of mutual exclusion. So, one could define a thread, other defines > another thread, if both of them need to share some resource (variables) they > define a region of mutual exclusion where the resources (variables) can be > accessed only by procedure calling. I think the point of the post I followed up to was that lots of code already accesses global (and hence, potentially shared) variables WITHOUT defining a region of mutual exclusion. Kai