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
next prev parent 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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