From: Magnus Henoch <mange@freemail.hu>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: multi-threaded Emacs
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:58:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljutge3k.fsf@freemail.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87wseefoz2.fsf@master.homenet
Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org> writes:
> Personally I don't think there is need to use a library that at the
> moment is usable only on an architecture, it will be a serious
> portability problem for Emacs (that probably after "Hello World" is the
> most portable program out there).
> All we need for a multi-threaded Emacs can be done quite easily with
> pthreads.
Or GNU pth, which I'm surprised that noone has mentioned. It does
cooperative threading with a pthread-like interface, yielding at I/O
operations and some other syscalls.
http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/
Of course, whoever writes the code gets to choose the library. Good
luck with your endeavour! I look forward to the results.
Magnus
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2008-12-03 7:59 Re[2]: multi-threaded Emacs ak70
2008-12-04 8:45 ` Richard M Stallman
[not found] ` <87prk8mhg9.fsf@vanilla.net.mt>
[not found] ` <E1L8ZUB-0002x3-VT@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-12-05 13:27 ` Li Lin
[not found] ` <87prk64ilv.fsf@vanilla.net.mt>
2008-12-05 18:37 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-06 21:58 ` Magnus Henoch [this message]
2008-12-04 13:21 ` Stefan Monnier
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2008-11-29 13:32 Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-29 20:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-29 21:01 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-29 22:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-30 11:35 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-30 21:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-30 22:25 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-30 23:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-30 23:30 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-01 3:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-06 22:50 ` Tom Tromey
2008-12-07 3:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-29 22:06 ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-30 16:43 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-11-30 17:34 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-30 21:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-30 22:10 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-30 22:20 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-30 23:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-30 23:09 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-01 0:10 ` Chetan Pandya
2008-12-01 3:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-01 14:06 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-01 18:57 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-01 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-01 22:41 ` joakim
2008-12-02 16:02 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-02 22:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-02 22:41 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-03 2:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-03 18:26 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-03 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-05 2:59 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-05 7:40 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-05 8:20 ` Miles Bader
2008-12-05 9:42 ` Paul R
2008-12-05 10:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-05 10:35 ` Paul R
2008-12-05 11:02 ` Helmut Eller
2008-12-05 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-05 16:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-05 16:57 ` Tom Tromey
2008-12-06 4:41 ` Miles Bader
2008-12-06 7:44 ` Helmut Eller
2008-12-06 22:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-06 8:30 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-05 15:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-06 19:25 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-06 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-06 23:41 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-07 20:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-07 23:51 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-08 3:06 ` Chetan Pandya
2008-12-08 15:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-07 16:02 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-07 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-07 16:15 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-08 18:26 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-08 19:49 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-09 2:15 ` dhruva
2008-12-09 2:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-09 2:53 ` dhruva
2008-12-09 9:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-12-09 17:26 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-09 19:10 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-10 18:18 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-10 18:18 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-09 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-10 18:18 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-11 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-11 14:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-11 18:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-11 18:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-11 19:01 ` Paul R
2008-12-11 20:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-12 19:03 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-13 3:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-11 19:07 ` Paul R
2008-12-11 20:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-05 2:59 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-05 15:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-02 23:10 ` Florian Beck
2008-11-30 22:17 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-30 16:44 ` Richard M Stallman
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