Re: Running process filters in another thread

[Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>]

>>>>> ">" == yyoncho  <yyoncho@gmail.com> writes:

>> I am not familiar with emacs internals and I am not sure whether this is doable
>> but I wonder whether providing the option to do the parsing(and probably more?)
>> in a separate thread and then call the *filter* function on emacs side in UI
>> thread with elisp data structures like lists, hashmaps etc. instead of raw
>> string is feasible which would be similar to what is happening in Javascript world.

As Eli and Stefan have pointed out, this isn't likely to gain
performance due to the global lock.

I wanted to point out, though, that it is possible to lock a process to
a thread.  (info "(elisp) Processes and Threads")  So part of what you
want is there.

I think it would be good for Emacs to experiment with less cooperative
thread scheduling.  This came up before and was rejected; I should have
spoken up then, since my view is that this really isn't all that
dangerous, because in practice there just aren't that many threaded
programs.  Also, this is a necessary step toward true multi threading.

Tom