From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Concurrency, again Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:32:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <86k2dk77w6.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> <9D64B8EA-DB52-413D-AE6A-264416C391F3@iotcl.com> <83int1g0s5.fsf@gnu.org> <83twckekqq.fsf@gnu.org> <8760of6wxw.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1477492445 1725 195.159.176.226 (26 Oct 2016 14:34:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:34:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 26 16:33:57 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bzPGy-000609-Eu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:33:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35068 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzPGv-0006Ue-Oq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:33:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52541) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzPFs-0006SX-86 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:32:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzPFp-00071d-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:32:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=48165 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzPFo-00071E-RN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:32:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bzPFd-000602-T1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:32:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:jOFcUdEB0uEnureRXTR3NzqlhG8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208843 Archived-At: >>> > Out of curiosity I've implemented Plan9/Go-style CSP based on >>> > libtask (without OS threads) in Emacs with minimal changes, and >>> > most things seem to work just fine. >>> Great. Have you then tried to make Gnus use it? PS> No, I don't use Gnus myself, so I couldn't compare it to the current state PS> anyway. [...] > This might be a good performance test for any proposed concurrent changes. I was thinking of another kind of performance test: how much time is necessary to take existing code and make it use the concurrency support. Stefan