From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Earl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Current Emacs Development Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:58:42 -0700 Organization: XMission http://xmission.com/ Message-ID: <87ipx3c6zx.fsf@notengoamigos.org> References: <87bp30bzdg.fsf@notengoamigos.org> <87mxmkft81.fsf@notengoamigos.org> <87vd17y70i.fsf@notengoamigos.org> <87r5bvb9u1.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> <87mxmjx9ob.fsf@notengoamigos.org> <87ei7ubx1k.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> <87aaiggzl2.fsf@notengoamigos.org> <20182647-18a8-462b-b253-d5eb0f6ab723@o14g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <87aaifpib5.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> <87zkqfl6i9.fsf_-_@notengoamigos.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296666149 21757 80.91.229.12 (2 Feb 2011 17:02:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:02:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 02 18:02:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pkg64-0007YJ-T6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:02:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50634 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pkftu-0000b7-UN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:49:51 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!news.snarked.org!xmission!nnrp.xmission!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: jearl.fttp.xmission.com Original-X-Trace: news.xmission.com 1296626322 5924 166.70.233.10 (2 Feb 2011 05:58:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xmission.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 05:58:42 +0000 (UTC) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwCAAAAAByaaZbAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFz UkdCAK7OHOkAAAAgY0hSTQAAeiYAAICEAAD6AAAAgOgAAHUwAADqYAAAOpgAABdwnLpRPAAAAAlw SFlzAAASmwAAEpsB4JJZDAAAAAl2cEFnAAAAMAAAADAAzu6MVwAAAaFJREFUSMe1VtuxxSAIzIz9 2Iyl2Aj1bBX0k5+LrwjGjJyPy2ROwtGNBJbVCwwwy1UNoOL3f+SBxkj15Lr4NsboN24DWMZxYQNA TjGmjC1gswJiqBbpDeANYMwXBFyAFB5L7ADMBcoSDgAFBSDHR2tA8ABMSB4AawB76pAnILsKx2lm 1VfpgUi3kxrySylRHdmQj40Jva2/jl8EY3Twv/phhsC9nIQR0hnAOUptYsL3RxvAk+YIH2AWsvTH GYBgKn8GaPYm5jNANaCQ8WfAzyH9x0crFfGl9X4QVdg8gEqN2KjBHi6V/iBq6iyAxTqd+Yvupwai VwM9LZkxQ6otihmS6H+mHlK5URwi0UQgWxHoxS5JagBSed7IzJRCallS2pg2QsamcGUFNSHgLZUv augJIUualv1Bv6+yVat1oeMq92s/mBBWQJH7dQX7CnpvWWs/4CazpHlB2RR1BFSzNGdIaTbbLil8 U76BKKU0GztapXP3C78bNYQ6MTQybY8OkIaITf9HPzyHkXE4YXs4mf5VDz+jAepj3RTQ3Ubv0SPy 9AcCrfKh0TBgvgAAACV0RVh0ZGF0ZTpjcmVhdGUAMjAxMC0wNC0zMFQyMzo1NDo0My0wNjowMKID BVQAAAAldEVYdGRhdGU6bW9kaWZ5ADIwMTAtMDQtMzBUMjM6NTQ6NDItMDY6MDB1KbZcAAAAAElF TkSuQmCC User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JlXCEE1HeC8UO+6LY3D10+WlNTk= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184775 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78932 Archived-At: On Tue, Feb 01 2011, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I lurk on emacs-devel, and apparently Tom Tromey has a multi-threading >> branch that is getting ready to be merged to trunk. In fact, I think >> that it would be merged already, but they've had issues with the Windows >> build stuff. > > That's not quite what is happening. There is a concurrency branch > that provides a proof-of-concept implementation of cooperative > multithreading. Tom is working on updating the branch to be in sync > with the current trunk, and he's also working on including the > refactoring part of that branch into the trunk, so that the > concurrency branch is easier to maintain while still being outside of > the trunk. > > We had plans to possibly include the concurrency branch into 24 as an > experimental feature. It's still not clear whether that will happen > or not. I'm personally more concerned with merging the > lexical-scoping branch for Emacs-24 (and I think lexical-scoping is an > important prerequisite for concurrency), but that also needs some more > work. Thanks for clearing that up. Jason