From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: advice needed for multi-threading patch
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:52:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hvjglyx.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3y6o4cdo9.fsf@fleche.redhat.com
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:04:22 -0600 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
Tom> I think we need to yield when a thread is waiting for I/O. And, we
Tom> probably need a way to associate a process filter with a thread, so that
Tom> whatever input Gnus gets is processed in the right thread.
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:47:16 -0400 Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org> wrote:
KR> Yes, and this is an area where Gnus could be changed to take advantage
KR> of it once the facility is a bit more stabilized. The output from one
KR> NNTP server can be processed into a list of newsgroups in one thread,
KR> while another thread converts IMAP output into a list of mailboxes, a
KR> third thread talks to yet another IMAP server, etc.
The complications from gnus-agent, the gnus-registry, and other Gnus
elements that assume single-threading can be quite nasty. It would
probably be productive to involve the Gnus developers (Ding Mailing List
<ding@gnus.org>).
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-28 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-26 4:38 advice needed for multi-threading patch Tom Tromey
2009-08-26 7:06 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-08-26 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-26 18:50 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-08-27 3:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-27 6:28 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-08-27 17:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-26 16:08 ` Tom Tromey
2009-08-26 18:50 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-08-27 5:07 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-27 6:39 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-08-27 6:50 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-28 20:48 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-28 22:15 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-28 23:27 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-28 23:54 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-29 20:21 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-26 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-26 15:31 ` Tom Tromey
2009-08-26 19:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-18 22:59 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-19 0:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-09-19 0:32 ` Chong Yidong
2009-09-21 21:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-21 21:50 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-22 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-22 23:59 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-09-23 3:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-23 15:53 ` Chong Yidong
2009-09-23 3:16 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-24 17:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-24 17:57 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-27 20:59 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-27 23:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-28 4:27 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-29 0:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-29 2:26 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-09-29 3:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-29 3:57 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-09-29 3:33 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-29 4:07 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-09-29 2:30 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-23 18:43 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2009-09-24 17:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-24 18:53 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2009-09-24 20:04 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-24 21:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-24 22:23 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2009-09-24 22:47 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-09-28 14:52 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2009-10-05 6:02 ` joakim
2009-09-28 7:44 ` Lynbech Christian
2009-08-29 0:28 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2009-08-29 4:57 ` Tom Tromey
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