From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What's the problem? (Was: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?) Date: 09 Dec 2003 21:55:17 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87ekvpx18d.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> <4nad6cikxy.fsf@holmes.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nllpt3hr3.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <5bad69zd43.fsf@lister.roxen.com> <4noeuon378.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4ny8tsgxy6.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nhe0ggv0u.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nk75bwjaf.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nsmjv8d32.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nu14b6q33.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nvfop6bay.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> , David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 10 03:57:13 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATuXJ-0001Gb-00 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 03:57:13 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATuXJ-0006LN-00 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 03:57:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ATvU9-0000Nx-Rv for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:58:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATvTy-0000Ng-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:57:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATvTS-0008VA-Fe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:57:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ATvSx-00089Y-3Y; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:56:47 -0500 Original-Received: from vor.iro.umontreal.ca (vor.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.42]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1420C20FE3; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:55:19 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by vor.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7D5333CFD9; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:55:18 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Martin Stjernholm In-Reply-To: <5bvfopzek0.fsf@lister.roxen.com> Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18599 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18599 > I haven't yet seen any response to those constructive contributions to > this discussion that motivates they would be infeasible or > meaningless. I truly believe I have proposed a viable solution, but > the lack of comment on it is disappointing. It's probably because most people just agree with the proposition but don't care about implementing it. At least that's my position. > I'm not at all certain of that; cpu optimizations can slant these > things in unexpected directions. It wouldn't surprise me if an extra > indirection on the stack is faster than a global variable due to > better memory locality. That's always a possibility indeed. Stefan