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: the state of the concurrency branch Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:21:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87vc2t7erx.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <83txicffpe.fsf@gnu.org> <87haeb3lwp.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <83mwo3f762.fsf@gnu.org> <83a9k2fo0x.fsf@gnu.org> <837gf6fm34.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377696108 26032 80.91.229.3 (28 Aug 2013 13:21:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:21:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 28 15:21:49 2013 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 1VEfgz-0006yu-Oj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 15:21:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34712 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VEfgz-0001Ci-2B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:21:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35663) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VEfgo-0001Bf-To for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:21:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VEfgh-00072M-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:21:38 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:35890) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VEfgZ-00071Q-Pb; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:21:23 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+KK6/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIHgbBLZEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+KK6/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIHgbBLZEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="25335451" Original-Received: from 206-248-162-186.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.162.186]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 28 Aug 2013 09:18:39 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8DECA63072; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:21:21 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <837gf6fm34.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:58:23 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:163074 Archived-At: >> Anyway, if that's true, threads will be much less useful than they >> could be (e.g., fetching a large newsgroup while editing would be >> impossible, right?). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Should be "while running some CPU-intensive Lisp". That indeed won't work. True concurrency will take more work. Stefan