From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Concurrency in Emacs Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:07:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332785264 32106 80.91.229.3 (26 Mar 2012 18:07:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:07:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien?= Aptel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 26 20:07:42 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SCEKN-00076C-Ac for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:07:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45194 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCEKM-000695-K3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44000) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCEKC-0005he-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:07:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCEKA-0007GI-6T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:07:23 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:47804) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCEKA-0007Fl-2Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:07:22 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id q2QI7JRo027834; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:07:20 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D1799B4046; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:07:19 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Aur=E9lien?= Aptel"'s message of "Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:57:22 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4173=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9309 : core <4173> : streams <741308> : uri <1090360> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149218 Archived-At: > I don't know if it was mentioned in previous posts but the support for > threads in the C implementation of Emacs can be a lot easier with > coccinelle[1]. > Coccinelle is a tool that generates diff files for an entire source > tree based a semantic rules. Think of it as a _really smart_ sed with > operators and constructs for C. It's already used in the linux kernel > so it's production ready. BTW, it might also be neat to try and get rid of the GCPRO stuff by replacing it with a coccinelle "semantic patch". Stefan