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From: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Very interesting analysis of "the state of Emacs"
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:14:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4817B9DA.6080406@emf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Jqz4N-0001Aj-Hn@fencepost.gnu.org>

Richard M Stallman wrote:
>     The other hard problem is multi-tasking in the Emacs Lisp engine.
>     RMS once left me with the impression that this was virtually
>     intractable, especially if one wanted to have existing Elisp code base
>     compatibility, a reasonable thing to want.
>
> I think "intractable" might be too pessimistic.  It is certainly
> a lot of work, but someone could give it a try.
>
>   

A study group to map out the design possibilities while giving 
consideration to what is practical with the existing code base might 
make a nice side project.   Y'know, the ol' "measure twice, cut once" 
thing.   Might not be "affordable" in practical terms, I acknowledge.

-t





  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-30  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-29  3:19 Very interesting analysis of "the state of Emacs" Thomas Lord
2008-04-29  7:26 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-04-29 23:17   ` Richard M Stallman
2008-04-30  0:14     ` Thomas Lord [this message]
2008-04-30  2:21     ` Stephen Eilert
2008-04-30  3:20       ` dhruva
2008-04-30 22:00         ` Richard M Stallman
2008-04-30 22:49           ` David Hansen
2008-04-30 23:46             ` Thomas Lord
2008-05-01  7:30               ` tomas
2008-05-01  4:23             ` Jonathan Rockway
2008-05-01  6:31               ` David Hansen
2008-05-01  6:42               ` Miles Bader
2008-05-01 18:59                 ` Jonathan Rockway
2008-05-02 15:36                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-02 16:50                   ` CEDET and threads (was Re: Very interesting analysis of "the state of Emacs") Eric M. Ludlam
2008-05-03  8:09                   ` Very interesting analysis of "the state of Emacs" Richard M Stallman
2008-05-03 19:24                     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-04  9:37                       ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-04 23:23                         ` buffer transactions (was Re: Very interesting analysis of "the state of Emacs") Nic
2008-05-05 15:14                           ` Richard M Stallman
2008-04-30  5:12       ` Very interesting analysis of "the state of Emacs" Miles Bader
2008-04-30 14:06         ` David Kastrup
2008-04-30 15:08         ` Tom Tromey
2008-05-15  6:21           ` ERC disconnects when blocked too long (was: Very interesting analysis of "the state of Emacs") Michael Olson
2008-04-30 16:08         ` Very interesting analysis of "the state of Emacs" Thomas Lord
2008-04-30  6:24       ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-04-30 14:12       ` Mathias Dahl
2008-04-30 22:01       ` Richard M Stallman
2008-04-30 22:56         ` Thomas Lord

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