From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nic Ferrier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Threads in emacs implementation Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:36:40 +0100 Message-ID: <87ll537e13.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> References: <6dbd4d0005060619227dd41364@mail.gmail.com> <87vf4oaft8.fsf@zemdatav.stor.no-ip.org> <4nd5quav0o.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nll5btxv7.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nvf4eqnec.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nzmtpqdlp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4n7jgo3nxb.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119379750 13246 80.91.229.2 (21 Jun 2005 18:49:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:49:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 21 20:49:00 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DknnD-0004Wl-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:48:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dknth-0000FP-00 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:54:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dknqt-0007Wz-Qr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dknqf-0007Lr-HB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:51:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dknqe-0007BN-8s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:51:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.168.156.78] (helo=owls-tree.tapsellferrier.co.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1Dknii-0007Ge-CB; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:43:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.168.156.68] (helo=kanga) by owls-tree.tapsellferrier.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1DknbV-0000HN-ST; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:36:10 +0100 Original-Received: from nferrier by kanga with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Dknc1-0001tL-3B; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:36:41 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:13:38 -0400") 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:39241 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39241 "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > That would make the usual case much slower. > I prefer the idea of swapping bindings on thread switches. As I understand it such an implementation would not take advantage of the new hardware that supports multi-threading, eg: multi-core x86 processors. Nic