From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Concurrency, again Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:43:14 -0400 Message-ID: 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> <83r37i2mdx.fsf@gnu.org> <83a8e423w6.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476665045 8363 195.159.176.226 (17 Oct 2016 00:44:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 00:44:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 17 02:44:01 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 1bvw1x-0000U6-2L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 02:43:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58280 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvw1z-0000rm-7x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:43:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37983) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvw1N-0000ra-P1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:43:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvw1N-0003Bv-2J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:43:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35717) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvw1L-0003Ac-B8; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:43:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bvw1K-0001Xu-If; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:43:14 -0400 In-reply-to: <83a8e423w6.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 16 Oct 2016 09:40:09 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:208343 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Are such bugs why the "concurrency" branch is not ready? > We don't really know, because the branch was never seriously used. We could do something about that. Can we modify them so that you need to set a variable or you get the current default behavior? Then it could be merged in, and people could try it. > That's what the branch does: if a Lisp program doesn't create any > threads, it will run normally, as in today's Emacs, using a single > main thread. Maybe the flag (or flags) could control whether these applications create threads. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.