From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Elisp containers
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 10:38:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr2i5iee1.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
If someone feels like they have too much time on their hands, I think
a great feature to develop would be Elisp containers.
This would be like running Elisp in a separate process, except that it's
not a separate process, so communication between two containers can be
very efficient (e.g. you can send a buffer from one container to the
other as efficiently as you can send an integer).
Potential applications:
- true concurrency
- safely running arbitrary Elisp code (e.g. bug#32495)
- discover what a package defines without actually defining those things
(i.e. load the package into a container, then look at what got
defined and throw away the container).
Stefan
next reply other threads:[~2018-09-07 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-07 14:38 Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-09-07 17:54 ` Elisp containers John Wiegley
2018-09-07 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 18:25 ` John Wiegley
2018-09-07 18:04 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-09-07 20:13 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-08 19:25 ` Vladimir Sedach
2018-09-09 18:53 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-08 5:14 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-08 5:45 ` Helmut Eller
2018-09-08 17:56 ` Stefan Monnier
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