From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 16:02:15 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20020704092157.4CB2.LEKTU@terra.es> <20020704135240.4CBB.LEKTU@terra.es> <87fzyzhehh.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025791377 19725 127.0.0.1 (4 Jul 2002 14:02:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:02:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Q7CD-000582-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jul 2002 16:02:57 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17Q7IE-0001Ta-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jul 2002 16:09:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Q7Cc-0006vz-00; Thu, 04 Jul 2002 10:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Q7BV-0006u2-00; Thu, 04 Jul 2002 10:02:13 -0400 Original-Received: from latte (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g64E2CwF027391; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 16:02:12 +0200 Original-To: Miles Bader Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Hashcash: 020704:miles@gnu.org:dd6a0d03a8cdcf28 X-Hashcash: 020704:lektu@terra.es:33c85069749e105c X-Hashcash: 020704:rms@gnu.org:9fbd4ed63d06fecf X-Hashcash: 020704:emacs-devel@gnu.org:f7352931e25a6b69 In-Reply-To: <87fzyzhehh.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (Miles Bader's message of "04 Jul 2002 21:19:54 +0900") Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter, i386-debian-linux) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO version=2.20 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5455 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5455 Miles Bader writes: > Juanma Barranquero writes: >> But perhaps adding thread support to Emacs/elisp is easier than doing >> the conversion from Emacs/elisp to Emacs/Guile. Who knows? > > I rather doubt that switching to guile will suddenly make emacs one big > happy multi-threaded application -- I suspect the biggest effort will be > in making various lisp applications thread-safe, not in the low-level (C > level) thread support, so it will be incurred regardless of how threads > are added. Yes, and I am eager to develop patches making Gnus a threaded application, but until Emacs has threads I can't do that.