From: Florian Beck <abstraktion@t-online.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: multi-threaded Emacs
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:10:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87myfeb2c7.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvfxl643rk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:22:47 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
>> If "concurrent threads" means "threads that can only switch where the
>> program lets them", they are very useful in Emacs for the sake of multiple
>> terminals.
>
> I rarely use multiple terminals, and when I use them, the current
> restrictions are mostly bearable. OTOH I very often would like to keep
> using my Emacs while it's byte-compiling some files, or while Gnus is
> fetching some newsgroup.
As a user, I would love to see asynchronous processes.
However, I would also like to see redisplay+font-locking making use of
the four to eight processor cores that will become standard during emacs24's
lifetime. Font-locking is a powerful and quite user-accessible feature
which is currently limited by processor speed.
--
Florian Beck
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-02 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-29 13:32 multi-threaded Emacs 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 [this message]
2008-11-30 22:17 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-30 16:44 ` Richard M Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-03 7:59 Re[2]: " 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
2008-12-04 13:21 ` Stefan Monnier
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