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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Peter Dean <laszlomail@protonmail.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com,
	drew.adams@oracle.com, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 21:46:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pn0qtvn1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Lp59f26bFXxmCX1L5a-kLiR4SHp0IEOiPaZW7UmbgWfSKoDu-ae425NLU6qWfcsLhImL2O0NekdRNKDCabKLtjh5gJaX3vXFN8pyqWqL5VE=@protonmail.com> (message from Peter Dean on Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:36:28 +0000)

> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:36:28 +0000
> From: Peter Dean <laszlomail@protonmail.com>
> Cc: "drew.adams@oracle.com" <drew.adams@oracle.com>, "stefankangas@gmail.com" <stefankangas@gmail.com>, "larsi@gnus.org" <larsi@gnus.org>, "dgutov@yandex.ru" <dgutov@yandex.ru>, "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> I checked and I see yield calls the system scheduler. Could simply
> giving the main thread the highest priority work?

Why the main thread?  The UI could be run in any thread, not
necessarily in the main one.  There's no way to know in advance which
one will run it.

And what if one of the non-main threads wants to ask the user a
question, for example?  It could happen without any intent on the
application level, simply because a thread calls some primitive that
needs to prompt the user.

And finally, if you give the main thread higher priority up front, how
can we make sure the other threads will ever get to run?



  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-23 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-22 18:37 Would you say this information window is well designed? Peter Dean
2021-02-22 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-22 19:23   ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-22 19:28     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-22 20:28       ` Joost Kremers
2021-02-22 21:49       ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-22 21:57         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 22:30           ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-23  0:45             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-23  5:34               ` Drew Adams
2021-02-23  5:46                 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-23  5:54                 ` Peter Dean
2021-02-23 15:22                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-23 15:29                     ` Peter Dean
2021-02-23 16:00                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-23 17:32                         ` Peter Dean
2021-02-23 17:40                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-23 17:59                             ` Peter Dean
2021-02-23 18:26                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-23 19:36                                 ` Peter Dean
2021-02-23 19:46                                   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-02-23 21:58                                     ` Peter Dean
2021-02-24  3:25                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-27 21:44                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-28 17:32                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-01  5:22                                     ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-23  5:44               ` Drew Adams
2021-02-23 14:18               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-23 15:44                 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-23 16:15                   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-23 16:28                     ` Drew Adams
2021-02-22 21:19 ` Stefan Kangas

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