From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: hw <hw@adminart.net>
Cc: psainty@orcon.net.nz, gazally@runbox.com, rms@gnu.org,
emacs-devel-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz@gnu.org,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: User interaction from multiple threads
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 21:55:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ftyt120d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87in3rmpis.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> (message from hw on Sat, 01 Sep 2018 19:32:07 +0200)
> From: hw <hw@adminart.net>
> Cc: psainty@orcon.net.nz, gazally@runbox.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 19:32:07 +0200
>
> > There's very little overhead, but if you are interested in the
> > details, I suggest to read thread.c. It's not a lot of code, and the
> > ideas are quite simple.
>
> I wish I had at least 50 lifetimes so I could do more of what I would
> like to do.
Same here.
> Would you say that when a user is writing a function that does some
> string replacements within texts that are usually between 16 and
> 64kB in size should use multiple threads to replace different
> strings or not?
Could be, if the code is written to yield from time to time.
> I would expect it to be slower because of the overhead unless multiple
> threads could run at the same time. Since they can't, what would be an
> advantage of using multiple threads?
It is advantageous if some of the threads call yielding APIs, since
then other threads could run while they are waiting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-01 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-14 15:12 User interaction from multiple threads Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-14 16:42 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2018-08-15 8:02 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-16 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-17 2:59 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2018-08-17 8:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-15 8:06 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-15 8:22 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-15 9:08 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-15 10:30 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-15 12:27 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-15 12:59 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-15 16:27 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-15 18:04 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17 4:26 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-17 4:32 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-17 7:33 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17 7:48 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-17 8:11 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-15 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-16 12:21 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-16 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-17 7:24 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-17 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-17 8:34 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-17 8:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-08-17 9:06 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-18 8:31 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-18 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-19 9:17 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-15 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-16 12:20 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-16 13:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-16 15:19 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-20 14:36 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-08-20 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-19 23:08 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-08-20 1:18 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-20 14:15 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-08-20 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-29 17:36 ` John Shahid
2018-08-30 0:18 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-30 2:34 ` John Shahid
2018-08-30 13:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-30 16:08 ` John Shahid
2018-08-30 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-30 20:15 ` John Shahid
2018-08-31 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-31 21:37 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-09-01 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 22:38 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-21 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22 4:05 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-22 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22 15:48 ` hw
2018-08-22 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22 19:34 ` hw
2018-08-22 23:58 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-23 0:22 ` John Wiegley
2018-08-24 1:59 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-23 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-23 22:34 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-24 8:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-24 12:59 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-25 0:21 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-25 0:16 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-24 2:00 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-24 3:57 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-24 9:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-24 11:44 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-24 15:41 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-25 11:58 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-27 10:53 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-25 0:20 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-25 7:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-25 10:32 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-25 19:11 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-25 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-26 12:52 ` hw
2018-08-26 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-27 4:33 ` hw
2018-08-27 7:32 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-27 14:35 ` hw
2018-08-27 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-27 18:43 ` hw
2018-08-28 5:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 20:47 ` hw
2018-08-27 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-27 19:46 ` hw
2018-08-28 5:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 13:05 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-28 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 22:05 ` hw
2018-08-29 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-29 20:00 ` hw
2018-08-30 13:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-01 17:32 ` hw
2018-09-01 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-09-02 16:37 ` hw
2018-09-02 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-01 22:30 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-02 16:43 ` hw
2018-08-30 1:16 ` Uday S Reddy
2018-08-30 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-30 21:12 ` Uday Reddy
2018-08-31 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-01 17:33 ` hw
2018-08-26 20:43 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-22 16:24 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-22 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-25 16:16 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-22 7:18 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-22 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-21 16:17 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-08-30 0:21 ` Uday Reddy
2018-08-30 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
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