From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: the state of the concurrency branch Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 13:43:49 -0600 Message-ID: <87ppt17dze.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> References: <87vc2t7erx.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <521A5CBB.2060509@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377459854 18246 80.91.229.3 (25 Aug 2013 19:44:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:44:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs discussions To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 25 21:44:17 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VDgER-0001S9-B2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 21:44:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47447 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VDgEQ-0003bu-V3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:44:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51642) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VDgEI-0003bj-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:44:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VDgE9-0003Ri-Iw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:44:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:39076) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VDgE9-0003RZ-Bw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:43:57 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r7PJhoDk001114 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:43:50 -0400 Original-Received: from barimba (ovpn-113-142.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.142]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r7PJhnE7027457 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:43:50 -0400 X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <521A5CBB.2060509@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 25 Aug 2013 12:36:27 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.11 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163021 Archived-At: Paul> * How do you debug? Both Elisp code, and the C substrate. In C it is just as easy as anything else. For elisp, yeah, that's a problem. There really isn't a decent way, I think. Just printfs. Paul> * What are the implications of combining this with Paul> the Guile version of Emacs that Brad is working on? You'd have to ask him. Paul> * Is it governed by a --with-something-or-other Paul> flag at configure-time? Would make it easier to sell, Paul> I expect. It's unconditional. If you want it to be optional, could you say why? I don't think that would be particularly useful. It hasn't been ported to many hosts yet. That isn't something I can do. Tom