Re: Concurrency via isolated process/thread

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com> writes:

> The best idea I've had for a general solution would be to make "concurrent"
> versions of the fundamental lisp objects that act like immutable git
> repositories, with the traditional versions of the objects acting as
> working copies but only recording changes.  Then each checked out copy
> could push charges back, and if the merge fails an exception would be
> thrown in the thread of that working copy which the elisp code could decide
> how to handle.  That would work for inter-process shared memory or plain
> in-process memory between threads.  Then locks are only needed for updating
> the main reference to the concurrent object.

Honestly, it sounds overengineered.
Even if not, it is probably easier to implement a more limited version
first and only then think about fancier staff like you described (not
that I understand your idea fully).

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