From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Experiment with threads - no concurrency?
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 20:31:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pmtlr4oy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM9PR09MB4977BA0A1925A1B6D58D34D396D29@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (message from Arthur Miller on Mon, 06 Sep 2021 18:35:16 +0200)
> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 18:35:16 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Well it woudl be probably misunderstanding on my part, since I thought that
> threads are just a wrapper on pthreads
The are indeed wrappers of pthreads, but we don't use the pthreads
scheduler.
> This also leaves me with a question: what is practical use for Emacs threads? Is
> there any internal code that uses threads so I can look at a practical example?
You can start by looking at the tests for the thread capabilities.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-06 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-06 14:35 Experiment with threads - no concurrency? Arthur Miller
2021-09-06 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-06 16:35 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-06 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-09-06 17:38 ` T.V Raman
2021-09-06 18:11 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-06 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-06 16:40 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-06 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-06 18:10 ` Arthur Miller
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