From: "Björn Bidar" <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
acm@muc.de, incal@dataswamp.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs design and architecture. How about copy-on-write?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:37:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87led1n8to.fsf@thaodan.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s0dled382x6.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Tue, 19 Sep 2023 07:41:41 +0800")
Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
>> Useful stuff in Emacs almost always affects the display, so if a
>> non-main threads cannot do that, they will be useless. Or what am I
>> missing?
>
> Consider the case of Gnus or Eglot: it will enable either of them to
> fetch news or receive LSP output from a second thread, decode it, and
> subsequently transfer it to the main thread for display. Such expensive
> processing is the reason people desire a multi-processing Emacs, because
> it will facilitate efficiently running these operations in the
> background and possibly on a different CPU.
Magit is another example: A lot of modes are busy gathering data or
search through data. If the operations can run in the background not
blocking the main thread that runs the ui it would be to kill for (so to
speak).
Rendering the ui can take some time sometimes but not as often.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-19 21:37 UTC|newest]
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2023-08-27 15:14 Shrinking the C core Arthur Miller
2023-08-27 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-28 5:32 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-08-28 6:23 ` Arthur Miller
2023-08-28 6:21 ` Arthur Miller
2023-08-28 1:31 ` Richard Stallman
2023-08-28 5:50 ` Arthur Miller
2023-08-28 12:20 ` Po Lu
2023-08-28 14:39 ` Arthur Miller
2023-08-28 15:17 ` Po Lu
2023-08-29 2:41 ` Arthur Miller
2023-08-28 1:41 ` Po Lu
2023-08-28 2:53 ` chad
2023-08-28 3:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-08-28 4:53 ` Arthur Miller
2023-08-28 5:36 ` Po Lu
2023-08-28 6:55 ` Arthur Miller
2023-08-28 7:31 ` Po Lu
2023-08-28 8:06 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-08-28 14:30 ` Arthur Miller
2023-08-28 15:09 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-08-29 2:20 ` Arthur Miller
2023-08-28 15:14 ` Po Lu
2023-08-29 2:36 ` Arthur Miller
2023-08-29 4:07 ` Po Lu
2023-08-31 1:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-08-28 14:08 ` Arthur Miller
2023-08-28 15:08 ` Po Lu
2023-08-29 2:06 ` Arthur Miller
2023-08-29 4:15 ` Po Lu
2023-08-29 11:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-29 3:57 ` Arthur Miller
2023-09-01 1:18 ` Richard Stallman
2023-08-31 2:07 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-01 14:58 ` Arthur Miller
2023-09-01 16:36 ` tomas
2023-09-04 1:32 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-04 1:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-04 5:49 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2023-09-04 14:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-07 1:21 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-07 1:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-07 7:02 ` tomas
2023-09-07 7:36 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2023-09-07 7:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-07 8:19 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-07 8:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-07 9:28 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2023-09-09 1:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-09 6:25 ` Po Lu
2023-09-09 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-07 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-07 9:39 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-09 1:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-11 0:43 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-11 12:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-11 12:43 ` tomas
2023-09-13 5:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-12 4:44 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-12 12:25 ` João Távora
2023-09-12 11:31 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-09-12 13:00 ` Emacs design and architecture (was: Shrinking the C core) Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-13 20:52 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-09-13 21:19 ` Christopher Dimech
2023-09-14 6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-15 0:13 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-15 4:39 ` Emacs design and architecture Werner LEMBERG
2023-09-17 0:43 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-17 13:22 ` Werner LEMBERG
2023-09-14 5:57 ` Emacs design and architecture (was: Shrinking the C core) Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-14 6:30 ` Emacs design and architecture Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-14 6:38 ` Po Lu
2023-09-14 6:49 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-14 15:03 ` Helmut Eller
2023-09-14 15:30 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-14 16:21 ` Helmut Eller
2023-09-17 0:46 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-17 13:02 ` Björn Bidar
2023-09-19 10:19 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-14 16:23 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-09-14 16:50 ` joakim
2023-09-14 16:30 ` Emacs design and architecture (was: Shrinking the C core) Lynn Winebarger
2023-09-14 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-14 21:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-15 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-15 6:51 ` Yuri Khan
2023-09-15 7:23 ` Emacs design and architecture Max Brieiev
2023-09-15 7:30 ` Emacs design and architecture (was: Shrinking the C core) Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-15 9:32 ` Emacs design and architecture Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-15 15:52 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-15 18:36 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-15 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-15 19:19 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-15 22:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-15 23:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-16 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-17 12:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-17 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-17 15:36 ` Emacs design and architecture. How about copy-on-write? Alan Mackenzie
2023-09-18 10:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-18 11:38 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-09-18 12:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-18 12:49 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-18 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-18 15:55 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-18 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-18 22:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-19 10:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-19 11:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-19 12:37 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-19 19:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-20 9:56 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 15:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-22 16:15 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 16:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-22 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-19 19:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-20 9:59 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-20 10:22 ` Po Lu
2023-09-20 10:56 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-20 11:11 ` Po Lu
2023-09-20 11:53 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-20 11:58 ` Po Lu
2023-09-20 12:05 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-20 13:35 ` Po Lu
2023-09-20 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-21 0:55 ` Po Lu
2023-09-21 3:35 ` Po Lu
2023-09-21 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-21 7:34 ` Po Lu
2023-09-21 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-21 8:35 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-21 9:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-21 10:13 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-21 11:49 ` Po Lu
2023-09-21 23:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-21 12:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-21 13:12 ` Po Lu
2023-09-21 13:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-21 13:35 ` Po Lu
2023-09-21 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-21 13:57 ` Po Lu
2023-09-21 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-21 9:14 ` Po Lu
2023-09-22 15:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-22 16:45 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-09-25 13:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-19 12:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-19 12:57 ` Po Lu
2023-09-19 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-20 1:05 ` Po Lu
2023-09-20 12:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-20 12:09 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-20 12:27 ` Po Lu
2023-09-19 19:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-20 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-22 14:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-22 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-22 16:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-22 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-22 21:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-22 16:11 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-22 16:27 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 17:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-22 16:13 ` tomas
2023-09-19 11:36 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-19 12:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-19 13:35 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-19 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-19 15:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-19 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-19 16:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-19 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-19 20:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-20 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-20 11:38 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-20 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-21 10:41 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-21 13:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-22 10:05 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-22 12:49 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-22 13:08 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-20 12:21 ` Po Lu
2023-09-20 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-09-21 10:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-21 22:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-21 23:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-21 0:41 ` Po Lu
2023-09-21 2:23 ` Adam Porter
2023-09-21 2:53 ` Po Lu
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2023-09-21 7:48 ` Po Lu
2023-09-21 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-21 9:25 ` Po Lu
2023-09-21 9:39 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-21 10:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-21 10:48 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-21 11:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-21 11:17 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-21 11:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-21 11:36 ` Debouncing slow mode line constructs (was: Emacs design and architecture. How about copy-on-write?) Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-21 11:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-22 10:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 11:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-22 12:50 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 13:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-22 13:10 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-23 10:54 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-21 13:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-22 10:23 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 12:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-22 13:03 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 13:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-22 13:19 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-23 11:10 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 12:52 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-22 15:05 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-09-21 13:00 ` Emacs design and architecture. How about copy-on-write? Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-21 13:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-21 13:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-22 1:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-22 10:51 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 10:28 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-22 13:06 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 13:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-21 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-20 19:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-21 4:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-21 20:24 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-20 9:47 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-20 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-21 10:29 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-21 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-22 10:48 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-22 12:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-23 11:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-23 11:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-23 12:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-23 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-23 13:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-23 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-23 14:09 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-24 0:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-23 14:23 ` Yuri Khan
2023-09-23 14:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-18 13:30 ` Po Lu
2023-09-18 13:34 ` Po Lu
2023-09-18 13:55 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-18 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-18 23:41 ` Po Lu
2023-09-19 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-20 1:01 ` Po Lu
2023-09-20 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-20 12:13 ` Po Lu
2023-09-20 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-20 18:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-21 4:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-21 10:08 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-21 10:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-21 10:35 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-21 13:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-19 21:37 ` Björn Bidar [this message]
2023-09-19 10:20 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-18 21:38 ` Emacs design and architecture Emanuel Berg
2023-09-16 8:41 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-16 11:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-16 11:59 ` Sebastian Miele
2023-09-16 13:00 ` Po Lu
2023-09-16 13:08 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-16 13:25 ` Po Lu
2023-09-16 14:20 ` Björn Bidar
2023-09-16 16:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-16 17:07 ` Gerd Möllmann
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2023-09-16 18:33 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-16 19:18 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-09-16 20:02 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-16 19:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-16 20:01 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-16 23:50 ` Po Lu
2023-09-16 16:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-16 23:46 ` Po Lu
2023-09-17 6:08 ` Immanuel Litzroth
2023-09-17 6:43 ` Po Lu
2023-09-17 18:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-18 0:11 ` Po Lu
2023-09-18 10:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-18 11:12 ` Po Lu
2023-09-18 11:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-20 18:35 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-20 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-17 23:02 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-19 18:22 ` chad
2023-09-21 20:26 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-22 0:31 ` Bob Rogers
2023-09-23 7:13 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-18 18:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-19 23:14 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-17 23:03 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-15 23:26 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-16 9:09 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-17 7:34 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-17 15:44 ` Helmut Eller
2023-09-17 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-18 6:36 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-15 15:10 ` Emacs design and architecture (was: Shrinking the C core) Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-15 15:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-17 0:45 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-17 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-19 10:22 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-19 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-12 12:27 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-13 6:12 ` Shrinking the C core Emanuel Berg
2023-09-05 4:23 ` Arthur Miller
2023-09-06 0:58 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-06 1:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-06 5:04 ` Arthur Miller
2023-09-06 11:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-09-06 23:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-07 7:00 ` tomas
2023-09-07 7:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-07 7:52 ` tomas
2023-09-07 5:30 ` Po Lu
2023-09-07 6:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-11 0:43 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-11 12:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-12 23:55 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-13 6:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-07 8:51 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-09-07 9:20 ` Po Lu
2023-09-07 9:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-08 2:00 ` Arthur Miller
2023-09-08 7:35 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-09 10:05 ` João Távora
2023-09-08 15:38 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-09-09 11:55 ` Arthur Miller
2023-09-09 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-09 13:20 ` Arthur Miller
2023-09-10 0:09 ` Drew Adams
2023-09-11 0:40 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-11 15:10 ` João Távora
2023-09-11 16:12 ` Drew Adams
2023-09-11 20:37 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-09-11 21:10 ` João Távora
2023-09-12 19:52 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-09-12 20:52 ` João Távora
2023-09-15 8:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-15 15:35 ` Drew Adams
2023-09-11 21:09 ` Eric S. Raymond
2023-09-12 2:05 ` Arthur Miller
2023-09-12 4:38 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-09-12 5:48 ` Arthur Miller
2023-09-12 12:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-12 12:16 ` Po Lu
2023-09-12 19:58 ` Arthur Miller
2023-09-13 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-14 11:53 ` Arthur Miller
2023-09-14 13:36 ` Po Lu
2023-09-12 2:30 ` Arthur Miller
2023-09-12 12:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-12 12:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-12 19:57 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-09-13 0:00 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-08 17:58 ` Bob Rogers
2023-09-15 21:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-17 23:03 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-09 0:39 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-09 12:50 ` Arthur Miller
2023-09-12 0:27 ` Richard Stallman
2023-08-28 7:45 ` Andrea Monaco
2023-08-28 14:35 ` Arthur Miller
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2023-09-20 20:51 Emacs design and architecture. How about copy-on-write? zhanghj
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