From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?
Date: 04 Dec 2003 17:49:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv65gwfbke.fsf-monnier+emacs/devel@vor.iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4nhe0ggv0u.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu>
> take too long. I understand all this can be hacked into place, but
> is it really necessary to avoid multithreading so desperately?
Nobody is avoiding it here. We're just explaining to you why nobody
bothered to do it yet and why none of us feels the urge to do it:
lots of work, unclear payoff.
> Plus, I am pretty sure that when an application uses N processors
> instead of one (as Emacs might with true preemptive multithreading)
> there is at least some speed improvement.
Your being pretty sure does not magically eliminate all the known
counter examples.
> (Xeons). I don't have benchmarks, sorry, but at least on Solaris the
> performance of a machine increases by at least 80% with each
> additional SPARC processor.
Such naive sweeping claims would tend to ruin your credibility, I'm afraid.
Yes, things can be made to work well, but do you have an idea of the
amount of work it takes to do that ?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-04 22:49 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 [this message]
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
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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