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 19:40:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sg5mu1hn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zm-3sK8E38yAH6NWhz7RVpW7RqM_Dw0WjbaYiLLbs_GwFcUEdf4Rn_l0WALqzHIIxfRaG_o50ZxwuRAKDZLR50J1yLl6vol-Lri3JS23uuw=@protonmail.com> (message from Peter Dean on Tue, 23 Feb 2021 17:32:09 +0000)
> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 17:32:09 +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>
>
> Thanks. I thought if a thread calls thread-yield very often (e.g.
> in ever iteration of a loop) then it lets the UI process pending
> events every time it yields.
>
> But if I understand you correctly, even if the thread calls
> thread-yield explicitly, it is not a guaranteed that the UI
> processes events and stay responsive.
Yes, because there's no guarantee that the thread running the UI
(usually, the main thread) is the one that will take the lock released
by thread-yield.
> If this the case then I wonder what the possible uses for threads
> are.
Welcome to the club.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-23 17:40 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 [this message]
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
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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