From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Scrivano Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: multi-threaded Emacs Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:41:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87ej0qci8g.fsf@master.homenet> References: <87abbiody1.fsf@master.homenet> <877i6l5d8s.fsf@master.homenet> <874p1npvtj.fsf@master.homenet> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228257740 7432 80.91.229.12 (2 Dec 2008 22:42:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:42:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 02 23:43:23 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L7dxf-0004xl-FT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:43:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40787 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7dwV-0003ru-8M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:42:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L7dwR-0003rf-B5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:42:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L7dwP-0003rT-OY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:42:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50411 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7dwP-0003rQ-KW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:42:01 -0500 Original-Received: from averell.mail.tiscali.it ([213.205.33.55]:57292) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L7dwO-0003On-9T; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:42:00 -0500 Original-Received: from master.homenet (84.222.169.218) by averell.mail.tiscali.it (8.0.022) id 48F7489F02168503; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:41:57 +0100 Original-Received: from gscrivano by master.homenet with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L7dwF-00020o-Dh; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:41:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:22:47 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106456 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > I rarely use multiple terminals, and when I use them, the current > restrictions are mostly bearable. OTOH I very often would like to keep > using my Emacs while it's byte-compiling some files, or while Gnus is > fetching some newsgroup. This is exactly the problem I had when I first thought of threads. Do you think we can solve it (at least partially) using a concurrent model? Thanks, Giuseppe