From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Threading IO-bound functions
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:26:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8360mj99oe.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADtN0WLFxqotPLo0ihPcQAAUVR8hxf53fB9-21rQfn6v3LwyFA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Elias Mårtenson on Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:01:51 +0800)
> From: Elias Mårtenson <lokedhs@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:01:51 +0800
>
> The number one function that I call that sometimes hang for a significant amount of time is ‘gnus’. I decided to
> try running it in a thread, and it worked surprisingly well. Initial loading of the messages can now be done in the
> background.
Beginner's luck ;-)
Did you try this in "emacs -nw"? And without your Gnus
customizations, which allow some shortcuts? Half way through its
initialization, Gnus asks a question, and then you get bug#25214.
> To prevent myself from running this function more than once at the same time, I created a wrapper function
> for this, and I have extracted it into a macro.
Thanks.
> I'd like to have people's opinions on this strategy, and if it might be reasonable to default ‘gnus’ to do this when
> run on Emacs versions with concurrency support.
I think we need first to solve the above problem in some way. Or
change Gnus to not ask any questions from a background thread.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-16 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-15 4:01 Threading IO-bound functions Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-16 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-12-19 3:03 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-19 3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-19 7:06 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-19 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-19 17:43 ` The event handling thread (was: Threading IO-bound functions) John Wiegley
2016-12-20 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-21 1:04 ` The event handling thread John Wiegley
2016-12-21 11:05 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-21 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-22 3:12 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-22 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-16 22:05 ` Threading IO-bound functions Ken Raeburn
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