From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multithreading, again and again
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:24:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wrc24shz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vcrne2pv.fsf@mail.jurta.org
* Juri Linkov [2011-10-17 21:57] writes:
>> I don't think there is such a consensus, but better support for
>> concurrency is something I consider important. It is currently much too
>> difficult to implement "asynchronous article fetch" and things like that.
>
> "Asynchronous article fetch" could be implemented with a simpler approach
> to run code in a "sandbox" similarly to HTML5 "workers" that run
> computationally expensive scripts in the background independently of any
> user interface scripts that allows for long-running scripts to be
> executed without yielding to keep the application responsive. More at:
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/workers.html
I had proposed that here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-02/msg00383.html
but it was pretty much ridiculed.
Helmut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-18 8:24 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
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 [this message]
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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