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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: SAKURAI Masashi <m.sakurai@kiwanami.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multithreading, again and again
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:17:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd3drr0kw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m339enpp2u.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Thu,  20 Oct 2011 11:09:29 -0600")

>>> Multi-threading and GUI is very sensitive topic. 
>>> Multithreaded toolkits: A failed dream? | Java.net
>>> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kgh/archive/2004/10/multithreaded_t.html
>>> I think this problem exists in Emacs too.
> Emacs doesn't have this problem in the classic way, because most GUI
> operations in Emacs Lisp are actually side effects of buffer- or keymap-
> modifications.

Or rather because Emacs's GUI is event driven and that your work doesn't
make it multithreaded.

Basically, Emacs uses a MVC approach and your work makes the controller
multithreaded but the viewer (which is implemented in C) is still single
threaded.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-20 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-28  6:49 Multithreading, again and again Dmitry Antipov
2011-09-28  7:50 ` joakim
2011-09-28  7:55   ` Julien Danjou
2011-09-28 13:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-17 21:57   ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-18  1:18     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-19 15:18       ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-19 20:51         ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-19 22:01           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-19 22:05             ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-20 23:00               ` John Wiegley
2011-10-20 23:52                 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-20 14:08             ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-20  1:12           ` SAKURAI Masashi
2011-10-20 17:09             ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-20 18:17               ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-10-21  0:46                 ` SAKURAI Masashi
2011-10-21 14:18                   ` Nix
2011-10-21 14:48                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-22  3:40                       ` SAKURAI Masashi
2011-10-22 19:30                         ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-22 20:27                           ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-18  8:24     ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-28 15:55 ` Helmut Eller
2011-10-19 15:14 ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-19 15:20 ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-19 18:30   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-19 19:00     ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-19 21:33       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-20 17:07         ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-20 18:33           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-20 20:54             ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-20 20:57             ` Tom Tromey

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