From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: hw Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: User interaction from multiple threads Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 20:43:08 +0200 Organization: my virtual residence Message-ID: <87bm9nejlv.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> References: <838t59j821.fsf@gnu.org> <83a7phdl7r.fsf@gnu.org> <61492e7f622303d02405bedbe65fabae@webmail.orcon.net.nz> <83pnybdaer.fsf@gnu.org> <837ekicw7i.fsf@gnu.org> <877ekiierh.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <834lflb2fj.fsf@gnu.org> <83h8jk9l41.fsf@gnu.org> <8336v2994c.fsf@gnu.org> <83bm9q6x7v.fsf@gnu.org> <874lfi863s.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83va7x5guc.fsf@gnu.org> <871sakl97g.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <87va7w8dt8.fsf@gmx.de> <87lg8rj2sa.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83y3cr4ylp.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535399246 29532 195.159.176.226 (27 Aug 2018 19:47:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 19:47:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cc: gazally@runbox.com, rms@gnu.org, psainty@orcon.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 27 21:47:22 2018 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 1fuNTt-0007X8-OZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 21:47:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34873 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuNVz-0002GS-Qg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:49:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45199) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuNVp-0002Dm-Il for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:49:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuNTT-0007l9-HC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:46:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mo6-p01-ob.smtp.rzone.de ([2a01:238:20a:202:5301::6]:31434) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuNTR-0007ie-97; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:46:53 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1535399212; s=strato-dkim-0002; d=adminart.net; h=Sender:References:Message-ID:Date:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From: X-RZG-CLASS-ID:X-RZG-AUTH:From:Subject:Sender; bh=wXmExjQm9c4WvkRkiHfkXY2IiUnO7OF78a9/HJ3M//A=; b=g2P3Crxgl4ogjiIC65ae/vopcmhO5sEf/nyyVo3p8YXAbtRb0vlpztGybI+ZVqy7rj FMBdogmOdokuk6pyexQrCMGhNJrOaHYxJNpxAaqCHfC/kWCIiXB5Mi/14Mj28Nfe2i7/ 7+foT9/YR9FRqrxu55BoCvxlsVgH5NK8qg8Bw3Y+oI3l7Gbbidq1eFLwDiRSpbaxz2dc Tbgiu/sFVwovWYcOYCrNH9c+4TZo0bCFeAROtPhmaD+4yHJUfICbEpTanFOte/18mW6V GpPVI/V+ry7JjoMRVB5OFJbSD3GxYoEPlyYE4/x1+NmXfL8r8S8VhmEWPHw64Byuqd14 sJGA== X-RZG-AUTH: ":O2kGeEG7b/pS1FS4THaxjVF9w0vVgfQ9xGcjwO5WMRo5c+h5ceMqQWZ3yrBp+AVdIIwXjneEe9k=" X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Original-Received: from lee by himinbjorg.adminart.net with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1fuNTC-0001nQ-UD; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 21:46:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <83y3cr4ylp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:29:22 +0300") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2a01:238:20a:202:5301::6 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:228986 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: hw >> Cc: gazally@runbox.com, rms@gnu.org, psainty@orcon.net.nz, >> emacs-devel@gnu.org, >> emacs-devel-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii >> >> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:35:17 +0200 >> >> Why doesn't Emacs support executing multiple threads in parallel? > > Because it's much harder, what with all the global resources an > editor has. E.g., consider editing a buffer while another thread > decides to modify it or even delete it. When multiple threads are running serialized, they still could decide --- or already have decided --- to do stuff that is no longer wanted or possible by the time they get to run (again). Or not?