From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: It's almost 2016 and when (single-threaded) Emacs hangs, you gotta be smashing your keyboard!
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:43:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lh9tk6ll.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 564E3E63.1010003@yandex.ru
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
> How will multi-threading fix that? Sure, Emacs might keep working in
> the other buffers, but now you have a frozen/dead thread on your
> hands, which probably takes up 100% CPU.
Why would it take 100% CPU? We're talking about an I/O wait.
> And if the UI is still
> working, you're free to create more frozen threads like that.
But he's also free to go do something else that doesn't require reading
from that directory, or waiting for a connection to time out, etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-19 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-19 20:29 It's almost 2016 and when (single-threaded) Emacs hangs, you gotta be smashing your keyboard! Alexander Shukaev
2015-11-19 20:36 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-19 20:57 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-11-19 21:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-19 20:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-19 20:55 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-11-19 21:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.264.1447966512.31583.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-19 21:11 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-11-20 0:36 ` Bob Proulx
2015-11-20 10:49 ` Rasmus
2015-11-22 21:43 ` Xavier Maillard
2015-11-22 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-23 5:11 ` Xavier Maillard
2015-11-23 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-23 5:13 ` Xavier Maillard
2015-11-23 13:52 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-23 1:19 ` MBR
[not found] ` <mailman.285.1447979800.31583.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-20 7:53 ` Loris Bennett
2015-11-20 9:42 ` Michael Albinus
2015-11-19 21:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-19 21:43 ` Random832 [this message]
2015-11-19 22:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-20 7:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.262.1447966007.31583.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-23 0:12 ` Jason Rumney
[not found] <mailman.258.1447964949.31583.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-19 21:09 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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