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: Dynamic loading progress Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:39:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <54D85304.1030600@cs.ucla.edu> <54D9AC29.2020603@cs.ucla.edu> <54DA8539.1020905@cs.ucla.edu> <87zj8ktq8f.fsf@lifelogs.com> <54DD6413.1000403@cs.ucla.edu> <83wq3m436s.fsf@gnu.org> <54DDEB4D.5040300@dancol> <83egpt4zz6.fsf@gnu.org> <54DE12E9.5040606@dancol.org> <85twypiiug.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83zj8g3n16.fsf@gnu.org> <857fvkik49.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83lhk0wkfl.fsf@gnu.org> <83k2zkwig5.fsf@gnu.org> <85k2zkgg8t.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424040001 28850 80.91.229.3 (15 Feb 2015 22:40:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:40:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen Leake , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 15 23:39:54 2015 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 1YN7qz-0000OR-QW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:39:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36840 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YN7qz-0001if-48 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:39:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37955) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YN7ql-0001g5-2V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:39:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YN7qh-0004vI-T2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:39:39 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:43672) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YN7qh-0004vE-Nx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:39:35 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t1FMdW2Y032327; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:39:32 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8C3491637; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:39:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (joakim@verona.se's message of "Sun, 15 Feb 2015 20:27:37 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5218=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5218> : inlines <2184> : streams <1390869> : uri <1856135> 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:183127 Archived-At: > This is just my experience from implementing Xwidgets FWIW. > Originally I tried having external code calling Emacs internals, but > that was very unreliable. That's not because it was called from external code. It's because it was called asynchronously. What I meant by the above is that it's perfectly OK for module code to call back Elisp in cases such as when Fmapcar calls Elisp: synchronous calls. There are indeed various restrictions about *when* you can run Elisp. These apply to module code, but they also apply to core code. Stefan