Re: Example of threads and concurrency?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
>> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 12:40:54 -0800
>> 
>> In my dumb example I had indeed expected to use accept-process-output.
>> But there's not a whole lot of advantage of using threads plus
>> accept-process-output over just using start|make-process with sentinels
>> and callbacks, right?
>
> It depends on what your network- or process-related code needs to do.
> If it just reads whatever the process has to give and that's all, then
> indeed, these two methods are roughly equivalent.  But if it has some
> more complex processing, like waiting for the process, dealing with
> errors, interacting with it, etc., then running that in a separate
> thread can make your code much simpler and easier to write, while
> letting the main thread (and thus the user) go about its business.

Okay, that makes sense.

Thanks again!
Eric