beginners elisp question - parallel execution

beginners elisp question - parallel execution

[simon254]

Hi,

sorry if this is a very dumb question:

in the past there were discussions about multi threading in emacs. My impression is that where most of a performance gain like this would be useful is for e.g. computing fuzzy scores for a long list of candidates or similar things. 

Would it be possible to introduce something like pure functions in fortran too elisp? I.e. functions that are not allowed to have side effects and for example act only on one list element? This could then be given to a new "number crunching" routine (mapcar_para?) which applies them in parallel to a list (via openmp or whatever)? Or is the concept already flawed? 

Again, sorry if this is dumb,

Simon

Re: beginners elisp question - parallel execution

[Qiantan Hong]

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I think the ’side-effect-free symbol property does this.

> On Nov 17, 2020, at 1:01 PM, simon254@mailbox.org wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> sorry if this is a very dumb question:
> 
> in the past there were discussions about multi threading in emacs. My impression is that where most of a performance gain like this would be useful is for e.g. computing fuzzy scores for a long list of candidates or similar things. 
> 
> Would it be possible to introduce something like pure functions in fortran too elisp? I.e. functions that are not allowed to have side effects and for example act only on one list element? This could then be given to a new "number crunching" routine (mapcar_para?) which applies them in parallel to a list (via openmp or whatever)? Or is the concept already flawed? 
> 
> Again, sorry if this is dumb,
> 
> Simon
> 


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