From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: fiskomaten@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Concurrency, again
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 08:55:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8360owaj2s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161012173314.799d1dc5@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (perry@piermont.com)
> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 17:33:14 -0400
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > The thing is all current code expects to be able to access any
> > buffer they like without interferrence from other code.
> > So to make this new model work we would need to support both
> > paradigms. If any "old-style" code started execution, by being
> > called by a function or from a timer, then the entire world would
> > have to halt so the old-style code could execute with its
> > assumption of sequential access.
>
> Well, the code expects to *access* buffers, but it doesn't expect to
> interact with other executing code.
That's not accurate, since all kinds of hooks triggered by buffer
access could execute code that accesses other buffers and changes
their contents.
> Concurrency is a giant tarpit of subtleties. :(
And Emacs is another giant tarpit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-13 5:55 UTC|newest]
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2014-09-11 16:29 Guile emacs thread (again) Christopher Allan Webber
2014-09-14 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-16 14:43 ` Grim Schjetne
2014-09-16 15:50 ` Emacs Lisp's future (was: Guile emacs thread (again)) Stefan Monnier
2014-09-16 16:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2014-09-17 18:24 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-09-17 18:42 ` Emacs Lisp's future Lars Brinkhoff
2014-09-17 19:25 ` Emacs Lisp's future (was: Guile emacs thread (again)) Lally Singh
2014-09-18 2:07 ` Alexis
2014-09-18 16:40 ` Emacs Lisp's future Daniel Colascione
2014-09-18 21:54 ` Regular expression creation [was: Re: Emacs Lisp's future] Alexis
2014-09-18 23:37 ` Aurélien Aptel
2014-09-19 0:00 ` Alexis
2014-09-19 2:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-19 10:07 ` Alexis
2014-09-26 15:25 ` Filipp Gunbin
2014-09-19 18:04 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-09-18 6:35 ` Emacs Lisp's future Andreas Röhler
2014-09-18 15:17 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-18 16:19 ` Ivan Andrus
2014-09-18 23:19 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-19 7:18 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-09-19 8:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-19 8:46 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-18 8:43 ` Emacs Lisp's future (was: Guile emacs thread (again)) Emilio Lopes
2014-09-16 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-16 16:54 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2014-09-17 15:14 ` Emacs Lisp's future Stefan Monnier
2014-09-17 16:57 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2014-09-16 16:59 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-16 22:58 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-09-16 23:10 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-09-17 13:55 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-17 15:19 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-09-17 16:23 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-17 18:10 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-09-17 5:04 ` mhw
2014-09-17 14:03 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-17 14:39 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-09-17 15:11 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-17 10:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-09-17 10:53 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-09-17 11:21 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-17 11:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-17 13:50 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-17 11:17 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-17 11:35 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-09-17 12:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-17 13:54 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-17 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-17 14:30 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-17 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-17 15:10 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-17 18:04 ` performance isn't a concern in ... " Nic Ferrier
2014-09-17 19:08 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-18 7:54 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-17 15:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-17 15:07 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-17 15:33 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-17 20:11 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-17 22:42 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-09-18 2:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-18 3:17 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-18 9:04 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-18 9:27 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-18 11:15 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-18 3:46 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-18 9:53 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-18 10:09 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-18 11:29 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-18 12:07 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-18 14:12 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-18 14:56 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-18 15:36 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-18 16:44 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-17 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-17 17:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-17 20:21 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-18 12:48 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-18 14:15 ` Rasmus
2014-09-18 14:34 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-18 15:01 ` Rasmus
2014-09-18 16:08 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-18 16:18 ` Rasmus
2014-09-18 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-18 23:18 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-19 0:00 ` Rasmus
2014-09-19 8:00 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-09-19 10:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-19 11:12 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-19 16:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-19 11:38 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-09-19 18:02 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-19 11:53 ` Rasmus
2014-09-19 18:01 ` Richard Stallman
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2014-09-19 18:43 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-18 23:17 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-19 0:03 ` Rasmus
2014-09-19 10:27 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-23 7:45 ` Emilio Lopes
2014-09-26 16:50 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2014-09-26 18:23 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2014-09-29 8:33 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-29 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-29 14:47 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-30 7:58 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-30 12:19 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-30 16:15 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-09-30 18:21 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-30 19:18 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-30 16:15 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-09-30 17:54 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-30 18:19 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-26 20:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-18 23:17 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-18 23:37 ` Rasmus
2014-09-19 2:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-19 6:26 ` Adding packages to ELPA (was: Emacs Lisp's future) Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-19 6:47 ` Adding packages to ELPA Rasmus
2014-09-19 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-19 13:56 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-09-19 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-19 12:31 ` Sam Steingold
2014-09-19 13:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-19 14:29 ` Sam Steingold
2014-09-19 13:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-19 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-19 14:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-19 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-19 15:41 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-19 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-19 18:03 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-19 16:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-19 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-19 18:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-20 16:09 ` Stephen Leake
2014-09-20 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-21 15:05 ` Stephen Leake
2014-09-20 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-20 16:00 ` Stephen Leake
2014-09-20 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-22 7:53 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-22 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-22 19:34 ` SP? {Spam?} " Phillip Lord
2014-09-19 18:02 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-19 18:02 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-17 22:49 ` Emacs Lisp's future Daniel Colascione
2014-09-17 12:46 ` Eric Brown
2014-09-17 13:33 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-17 13:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-17 15:11 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-17 20:23 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-17 21:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-09-20 19:31 ` Robin Templeton
2016-10-07 10:47 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2016-10-07 11:03 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2016-10-07 11:27 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-10-07 11:48 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2016-10-08 14:00 ` Ben
2016-10-08 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-07 12:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-08 8:23 ` Helmut Eller
2016-10-08 12:07 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-08 14:26 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-10-08 20:57 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-08 21:40 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-10-11 18:38 ` Clojure namespaces (was: Re: Emacs Lisp's future) Chad Brown
2016-10-08 22:15 ` Emacs Lisp's future Helmut Eller
2016-10-10 9:00 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-11 1:42 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-11 7:47 ` Helmut Eller
2016-10-11 14:44 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-10-12 3:17 ` Tom Tromey
2016-10-13 21:23 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-13 21:35 ` Tom Tromey
2016-10-17 0:44 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-10 4:09 ` Georges Ko
2016-10-10 4:51 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-10 13:56 ` Georges Ko
2016-10-11 4:06 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-11 4:18 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-11 7:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-11 13:33 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-11 14:54 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-10-11 15:10 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-11 17:55 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-10-11 17:08 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-10 15:26 ` raman
2016-10-07 15:32 ` Kelvin White
2016-10-07 16:18 ` Søren Pilgård
2016-10-07 16:25 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-10-08 2:09 ` Tom Tromey
2016-10-08 20:58 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-07 17:07 ` John Wiegley
2016-10-09 12:03 ` Toon Claes
2016-10-09 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-10 2:59 ` John Wiegley
2016-10-10 7:17 ` Concurrency, again (was: Emacs Lisp's future) Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-10 15:42 ` Concurrency, again Paul Eggert
2016-10-12 12:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-12 15:24 ` raman
2016-10-12 16:42 ` John Wiegley
2016-10-12 17:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 18:01 ` John Wiegley
2016-10-12 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 19:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-12 20:59 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-12 21:20 ` Søren Pilgård
2016-10-12 21:33 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-12 22:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-12 23:33 ` John Wiegley
2016-10-13 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-10-13 13:27 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-13 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-13 17:25 ` John Wiegley
2016-10-13 18:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-14 21:01 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-14 21:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-15 1:24 ` John Wiegley
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2016-10-15 22:03 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-16 0:38 ` John Wiegley
2016-10-16 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-17 0:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-17 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-25 13:34 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-10-25 22:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-10-13 19:34 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-13 19:49 ` John Wiegley
2016-10-14 15:26 ` Ted Zlatanov
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2016-10-14 16:57 ` John Wiegley
2016-10-14 18:03 ` John Wiegley
2016-10-14 18:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-10-15 7:16 ` Michael Albinus
2016-10-17 14:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-10-17 18:33 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-10-17 18:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-14 17:01 ` Stefan Huchler
2016-10-17 14:53 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-17 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-17 16:34 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-17 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-17 17:53 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-17 18:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-10-18 3:27 ` Stefan Huchler
2016-10-18 14:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-10-18 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-18 15:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-10-18 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-18 19:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-10-18 15:15 ` joakim
2016-10-18 16:20 ` Stefan Huchler
2016-10-18 18:37 ` Browsers inside Emacs (was Re: Concurrency, again) Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-17 18:19 ` Concurrency, again Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-18 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-18 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-18 20:29 ` Web browsing (was Re: Concurrency, again) Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-19 19:57 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-19 20:44 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-20 18:04 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-19 8:52 ` Concurrency, again Ricardo Wurmus
2016-10-19 13:07 ` Emacs as browser (was Re: Concurrency, again) Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-19 20:02 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-19 20:38 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-20 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-20 15:15 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-20 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-20 22:22 ` Cairo bugs (was Re: Emacs as browser (was Re: Concurrency, again)) Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-21 7:31 ` Emacs as browser (was Re: Concurrency, again) Dov Grobgeld
2016-10-21 19:43 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-23 6:23 ` Dov Grobgeld
2016-10-23 9:39 ` Dov Grobgeld
2016-10-23 10:26 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-20 18:15 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-10-20 18:41 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-20 20:56 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-10-21 1:45 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-20 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-20 20:33 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-10-21 6:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-21 12:39 ` Tookits (was Re: Emacs as browser) Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-21 12:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-21 13:45 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-20 18:04 ` Emacs as browser (was Re: Concurrency, again) Richard Stallman
2016-10-20 18:30 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-20 18:57 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-21 1:45 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-21 3:09 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-25 13:30 ` Concurrency, again Philipp Stephani
2016-10-12 21:24 ` joakim
2016-10-12 18:19 ` John Wiegley
2016-10-15 4:45 ` SAKURAI Masashi
2016-10-17 15:29 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-18 3:14 ` Tom Tromey
2016-10-18 6:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-18 7:58 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-10-18 9:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-18 10:08 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-10-18 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-19 10:18 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-10-19 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-20 6:08 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-10-20 7:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-20 7:12 ` Herring, Davis
2016-10-20 7:55 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-10-20 16:22 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-18 10:46 ` Alan Third
2016-10-19 7:02 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-10-18 14:04 ` Tom Tromey
2016-10-25 13:27 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-10-25 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-25 16:45 ` John Wiegley
2016-10-25 16:48 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-10-25 17:04 ` Stefan Huchler
2016-10-25 18:43 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-10-25 21:44 ` John Wiegley
2016-10-25 23:28 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-10-27 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-27 19:13 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-27 20:55 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-10-27 21:50 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-28 7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 6:42 ` Tom Tromey
2016-10-26 14:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-10-26 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-25 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-25 13:22 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-10-25 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-25 14:41 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-10-26 13:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-10-26 14:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-26 14:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-10-25 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-25 23:47 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-10 15:24 ` Emacs Lisp's future raman
2016-10-09 12:43 ` Søren Pilgård
2016-10-09 13:13 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-10-09 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-17 19:29 ` Guile emacs thread (again) Lluís
2014-09-17 19:34 ` Lally Singh
2014-09-18 12:23 ` Robin Templeton
2014-09-19 1:15 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2014-09-20 13:20 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-20 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-21 13:35 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-21 16:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-21 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-21 20:09 ` Stefan Monnier
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