Re: Emacs design and architecture

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Again it would be interesting to hear of how other
>> applications are doing it.
>
> There's a separate mutex for each global data structure.

There should be a lot of experience doing that in C system
programming not the least. Maybe we can bring something like
that straight from some FOSS project?

>> Because if the whole thing has to be locked for each thread
>> to access, it can be disputed if that is indeed any
>> parallelism at all. It will be multi-threaded and
>> multi-core alright, but not parallel execution unless one
>> counts waiting for a shared resource to become available as
>> a sensible passivity.
>
> That's what we have with Lisp threads now: while one thread
> runs, all the others are stopped by a global lock.

But do we also have Lisp threads that execute on separate
CPU cores in parallel, even tho they can't do anything
sensible both simultaneously, for said reasons?

We don't have that, right, because there is no reason to, as
the threads are unable to lock individual resources anyway?

So before we have a good reason to do that, we need to solve
how a single thread locks a single, unlocked global data
structure, access it's data, and then unlocks it?

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