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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>,
	Emacs discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] introduce systhread layer
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 08:22:48 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pq6u7txj.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9C928EA6-6467-422C-842B-9EA7E37C2A91@raeburn.org> (Ken Raeburn's message of "Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:21:24 -0400")

>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org> writes:

Ken> What benefit do you think providing this "no threads" port would have?

Not having to port the thread code to every host platform right away.

Ken> Where every I/O operation needs to be rewritten to call some helper
Ken> function that do the thread switching?

We're going to do this anyway; see the GC patch.

Ken> I've worked on code where performance of the thread-switching support
Ken> was a big deal.  I don't see Emacs falling into that category, at
Ken> least not any time soon.  On the other hand, I do hope that people
Ken> find more uses for thread support than occur to me right now, so….

My new plan is to get something working, then we can refine it.
The critical thing is not to make choices that inhibit future performance.

Tom



      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-13 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-09 19:38 [PATCH 03/10] introduce systhread layer Tom Tromey
2012-08-10  1:39 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-13 10:21   ` Ken Raeburn
2012-08-13 13:21     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-13 14:22     ` Tom Tromey [this message]

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