From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Denis Bueno Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Threads in emacs implementation Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:59:59 -0400 Message-ID: <6dbd4d000506061959345fa4d7@mail.gmail.com> References: <6dbd4d0005060619227dd41364@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Denis Bueno NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118113155 4729 80.91.229.2 (7 Jun 2005 02:59:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 02:59:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 07 04:59:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DfUIr-0008Bc-Bl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 04:58:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DfUPI-0000kf-4K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 23:05:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DfUP3-0000jm-LO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 23:05:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DfUP2-0000j1-CD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 23:05:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DfUP2-0000id-56 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 23:05:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.200] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DfUNm-0003Pg-H5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 23:04:02 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 36so3106611wra for ; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 20:00:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MTD61KmgUbBpvqzIwUZByHz3z2tXpjz2VZl7mPzpY8jzyGFI+zMJaAGzMW3YdKKCjHmCEVdWXq+BHo6iyiYhGRfjLUDQf+l3/PFHA/2HMKgxyc7nQGooJi+kt9RXTH4Zgm7CS6vxJYDxTSexmW4qrBzrx6otiiMRU/CMSjcGQeA= Original-Received: by 10.54.8.8 with SMTP id 8mr3682654wrh; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 19:59:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.43.38 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 19:59:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38220 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38220 On 6/6/05, Miles Bader wrote: > On 6/7/05, Denis Bueno wrote: > > Having said that, my question is, has thought been put into > > multithreading parts of Emacs? >=20 > Yes. It's very hard, because Emacs has lots and lots of global state > and lots and lots of code that doesn't expect to deal with threading > issues. Writing multi-threaded code from scratch isn't all that hard, > but making an existing massive code-base thread-safe is a very > different thing. >=20 > A search of the mailing list archives for emacs-devel should turn up > something I think. I tried that, but, searching for 'thread' in a huge database of mailing list 'threads' is not as useful as one might think. =3D] Is there one conversation in particular you are thinking of? -Denis