From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de, neil@ossau.uklinux.net,
raeburn@raeburn.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp and Guile
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 17:38:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilun0ryel1p.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200208071424.g77EO1103149@wijiji.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 7 Aug 2002 08:24:01 -0600 (MDT)")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> This assumes that only one thread is running at a time. It wouldn't
> work for a machine with multiple CPUs where threads can run at the
> same time and the concept of a "thread switch" does not exist. Maybe
> we don't want to care about this, which I would be very happy with.
>
> It is useful for Guile to support real parallel execution of threads,
> but it is not important for Emacs. Having multiple threads in Emacs
> will be very useful, but it is perfectly adequate if only one thread
> can run at a time.
I beg to differ -- one fundamental design principle in GUI design is
that the user interface should never "hang" due to processing in the
application. The user should be able to see e.g. the toolbar and the
buttons and tooltips etc should be updated even when Emacs is
processing something. Ideally long standing operations should have a
"Stop" button in the toolbar that aborts the operation.
Perhaps this isn't in direct conflict with your statement though, if
the thread switching is fast enough so that users doesn't notice it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-07 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-20 0:35 Emacs Lisp and Guile Richard Stallman
2002-07-20 8:37 ` Neil Jerram
2002-07-21 20:15 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-24 22:05 ` Neil Jerram
2002-07-25 18:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-25 19:16 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-27 18:53 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-30 12:20 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-31 5:54 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-01 19:39 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-01 20:52 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-08-02 10:23 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-02 10:41 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-08-02 12:09 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-02 12:37 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-08-05 15:19 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-02 22:14 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-02 22:53 ` Sam Steingold
2002-08-03 15:38 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-08-03 16:15 ` Sam Steingold
2002-08-03 19:35 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-08-03 20:33 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-08-03 20:40 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-08-03 22:41 ` Sam Steingold
2002-08-04 5:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-04 23:26 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-05 15:58 ` Sam Steingold
2002-08-09 18:02 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-08-11 3:54 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-04 23:25 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-05 16:10 ` Sam Steingold
2002-08-10 7:17 ` Noah Friedman
2002-08-10 14:01 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-08-11 16:52 ` Sam Steingold
2002-08-02 17:43 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-05 16:08 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-07 14:24 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-08 16:35 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-09 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-12 14:51 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-13 1:47 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-13 19:13 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-14 5:15 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-14 18:26 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-15 19:53 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-19 21:03 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-09 6:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-10 17:16 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-07 14:24 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-07 15:38 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2002-08-08 7:01 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-08 16:06 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-09 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-12 13:40 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-13 1:47 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-13 19:17 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-14 5:15 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-14 18:21 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-10 14:32 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
2002-08-11 3:55 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-11 8:28 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
2002-08-12 17:05 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-13 6:58 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
[not found] ` <ljr8h4803x.fsf@burns.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
2002-08-13 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-14 18:50 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-15 19:53 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-19 20:54 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-21 0:12 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-28 8:17 ` Neil Jerram
2002-07-29 17:30 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-25 4:22 ` Ken Raeburn
2002-11-05 23:28 ` Neil Jerram
2002-11-07 4:49 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-07 20:32 ` Neil Jerram
2002-11-09 11:54 ` Richard Stallman
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