From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Concurrency, again Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 11:26:38 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87insvt0i9.fsf@lifelogs.com> 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> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476458918 4973 195.159.176.226 (14 Oct 2016 15:28:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:28:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 14 17:28:34 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 1bv4PK-0007sB-HT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 17:28:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47904 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bv4PE-0006jR-0T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 11:28:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53451) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bv4Od-0006jM-QH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 11:27:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bv4Oa-0007q2-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 11:27:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41475 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bv4Oa-0007oK-CS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 11:27:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bv4O2-0007zd-Pv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 17:27:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:jp0kMgkdOVkzqZKBrbKSjvh4s9Q= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:208248 Archived-At: On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:25:26 -0700 John Wiegley wrote: JW> Examples of my own, coffee-break inducing moments: JW> - Asking for 10,000 back articles in Gnus, with sorting and threading on JW> - Applying a keyboard macro to manipulate 1000 file contents in dired JW> - Hitting 'g' in Magit in a repository with tons of stashes, pull requests, JW> pending changes, etc. JW> - Waiting for ERC to replay message logs from ZNC in 20 channels JW> - Asking Proof General to check a file that depends on 30 other files A few from my experience: - byte-compiling - waiting for dynamic data sources like Helm sources - Tramp to a slow system - eww or Gnus pausing while rendering a page/article - gnus-registry and Gnus searching (lots of data, not all local) - syntax highlighting (debugging it is... tough and the internals are scary) - Javascript, Java, C++... parsing complex languages in general I hope that's useful. Ted