From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs design and architecture. How about copy-on-write? Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:38:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87led2x8ao.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <83edizjn0v.fsf@gnu.org> <0518f65b-1dd1-6923-8497-da4d3aeac631@gutov.dev> <87sf7fc7kd.fsf@dataswamp.org> <834jjuk68t.fsf@gnu.org> <87cyyhc7uu.fsf@dataswamp.org> <83ttrsg9nx.fsf@gnu.org> <83h6nrg4eg.fsf@gnu.org> <83v8c7elan.fsf@gnu.org> <877conk5ny.fsf@localhost> <83ttrreeu0.fsf@gnu.org> <87bkdzeas1.fsf@localhost> <83cyyfe5l8.fsf@gnu.org> <8734zbyu6o.fsf@dataswamp.org> <835y46e8o9.fsf@gnu.org> <87zg1ixvnc.fsf@dataswamp.org> <83sf7acp86.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15751"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:bGHnxdRpxZqyL90+r0eNY7CXeRE= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 20 04:23:13 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qimrx-0003qD-GC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2023 04:23:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qimqm-00084G-Ob; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qigZt-00086g-5V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:40:09 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qigZr-0004SM-Bp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qigZm-0009f7-I0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:40:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:21:59 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:310804 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > If we need to lock 99.99% of Emacs "single" variables, it is > easier to lock everything. Faster, too. Why do we need to do that? For one thread, one write operation, and one variable, only that variable has to be locked? (operate-on var1) ; here we need a lock on var1 (operate-on var2) ; etc -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal