From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: HaiJun Zhang <netjune@outlook.com>, 38807@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38807: [Feature request]: Support lisp workers like web workers.
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:31:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mub9u0ld.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o8vpn8g1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:23:42 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 13:27:44 +0800
>> From: HaiJun Zhang <netjune@outlook.com>
>>
>> I think the web worker is a good design for GUI applications such as
>> web browser. The workers do heavy
>> work and provide the results to the UI thread. The UI thread only
>> displays the result and responds to user
>> input events which makes good user responsiveness.
>>
>> The web workers run in other context. They can’t access data in the
>> UI thread. They can only communicate
>> with the UI thread by calling some limited APIs.
>
> We have threads in Emacs, so you could start by using them, no?
The point seems to be that there is a dedicated UI thread. That we don't
have (yet) in Emacs, and I like this idea.
Best regards, Michael.
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2019-12-30 5:27 ` bug#38807: [Feature request]: Support lisp workers like web workers HaiJun Zhang
2019-12-30 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-30 15:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-12-30 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-01 3:20 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-01 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-01 3:57 ` HaiJun Zhang
[not found] ` <39f1e59e-08db-4862-98db-c31c3bcbab06@Spark>
2020-01-01 4:02 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-01 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-03 2:05 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-03 13:38 ` arthur miller
2020-01-04 5:59 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-04 8:11 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-04 9:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 9:10 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-01 3:06 ` HaiJun Zhang
2019-12-30 18:31 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2019-12-30 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-30 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-31 0:40 ` HaiJun Zhang
2019-12-31 1:39 ` arthur miller
2020-01-01 3:47 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-01 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-03 3:45 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-03 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 5:47 ` HaiJun Zhang
2019-12-31 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-01 2:59 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-01 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-03 3:18 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-03 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 5:26 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-04 9:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-21 2:24 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-03-21 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-22 1:12 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-03-22 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-24 4:22 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-03-24 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-26 13:37 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-03-26 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-26 18:14 ` Ivan Yonchovski
2020-03-29 2:41 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-03-29 2:12 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-03-25 16:44 ` Ivan Yonchovski
2020-03-25 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-25 17:21 ` Ivan Yonchovski
2020-03-26 13:49 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-04 5:55 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-03 3:34 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-03 14:10 ` arthur miller
2020-01-04 6:41 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-01 3:16 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-01 9:14 ` Michael Albinus
2020-01-03 2:52 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-03 5:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 5:19 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-04 8:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 9:33 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-04 9:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-06 5:08 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-06 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-01 14:52 ` arthur miller
2020-01-03 1:49 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-03 13:35 ` arthur miller
2020-01-03 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-03 15:14 ` arthur miller
2020-01-03 14:19 ` arthur miller
2020-01-03 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-30 12:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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