From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org>
Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?
Date: 04 Dec 2003 13:06:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jkvfowjw3k.fsf@glug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stefan Monnier's message of "04 Dec 2003 10:37:35 -0500"
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
Yes, that's the idea. I was thinking in terms of "what's the minimal
amount of parallelism needed to get similar benefits as current
async-I/O (via process-filters) but for CPU-bound tasks, such as
Gnus's construction of the summary buffer". I think in all the
important cases, the CPU-bound tasks runs in a single buffer and that
buffer is not modified/used by other code, so locking at that level
makes sense.
this is a nice idea, the "locked-loopback-buffer" abstraction. locking
requires declaration of all variables needed to be passed in, unlocking
passes out new values (if any) plus the modified buffer text. you can
even avoid threads entirely. for implementation, fork an inferior emacs
and use the already-in-place async-I/O facilities. two afternoons and a
nap! who needs multi-threadache anyway?
thi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-04 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 133+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-16 21:46 Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? Frank Schmitt
2003-11-17 0:49 ` Alex Schroeder
2003-11-17 4:06 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2003-11-17 4:29 ` Miles Bader
2003-11-30 16:36 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-11-30 18:01 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2003-11-30 18:39 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-11-30 18:12 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-11-30 19:40 ` Nic Ferrier
2003-12-01 16:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-02 14:45 ` Ted Lemon
2003-12-02 15:48 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-02 17:18 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-03 12:38 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-02 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-02 18:53 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-03 13:03 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-02 17:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-03 17:16 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-03 17:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-03 23:38 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-04 13:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-04 14:07 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-04 14:58 ` Nic Ferrier
2003-12-04 15:44 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-04 16:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-12-04 15:58 ` Nic Ferrier
2003-12-04 16:26 ` non-blocking sockets (was Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?) Nic Ferrier
2003-12-05 11:35 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-12-04 19:55 ` Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-04 20:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-04 20:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-04 22:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-05 12:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-05 13:06 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-12-05 14:44 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-07 23:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-08 16:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-08 17:09 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-08 18:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-08 22:02 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-08 18:25 ` What's the problem? (Was: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?) Luke Gorrie
2003-12-08 19:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-08 20:56 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-08 22:09 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-08 21:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-08 19:57 ` What's the problem? Simon Josefsson
2003-12-09 23:45 ` Juri Linkov
2003-12-10 0:58 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-10 4:35 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-10 5:38 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-10 5:51 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-10 6:34 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-10 7:19 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-11 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-11 23:09 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-12 23:55 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-13 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-13 17:29 ` Jan D.
2003-12-13 17:35 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-14 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-14 11:55 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-14 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-14 10:18 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-10 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-11 14:45 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-10 15:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-11 1:46 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-12 23:54 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-11 18:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-11 18:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-12 3:27 ` Luke A. Olbrish
2003-12-12 3:57 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-13 15:17 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-13 4:08 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-13 23:14 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-14 13:12 ` Emacs kill buffer Camm Maguire
2003-12-09 19:28 ` What's the problem? (Was: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?) Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-09 22:02 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-10 0:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-10 1:41 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-10 2:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-12 0:44 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-10 0:45 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-10 2:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-09 19:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-09 22:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-10 15:16 ` Ted Zlatanov
[not found] ` <E1AUS6B-0006KH-Hq@fencepost.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <4ny8tjryy8.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu>
[not found] ` <4nn09xm68c.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu>
2003-12-13 23:15 ` What's the problem? Richard Stallman
2003-12-14 3:21 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-05 8:58 ` Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-12-05 11:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-05 12:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-05 20:37 ` Luke A. Olbrish
2003-12-05 21:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-08 0:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-08 1:26 ` Luke A. Olbrish
2003-12-04 17:22 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-04 18:01 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-04 18:31 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-04 19:26 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-04 22:05 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-04 20:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-04 23:00 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-05 12:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-05 13:16 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-05 21:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-05 14:46 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-05 15:07 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-05 13:56 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-12-05 21:33 ` non-blocking auto-save (was: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?) Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-03 20:01 ` Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? Nic Ferrier
2003-12-03 20:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-03 21:42 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-12-04 7:33 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-04 15:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-04 18:06 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen [this message]
2003-12-04 7:33 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-04 13:14 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-04 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-06 20:58 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-07 0:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-12-07 14:52 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-07 16:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-12-07 4:16 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-07 14:53 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-07 23:00 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-11-17 19:31 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-17 22:53 ` David Masterson
2003-11-18 5:57 ` Miles Bader
2003-11-20 19:19 ` David Masterson
2003-11-22 21:19 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-18 6:52 ` John Wiegley
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