From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: multi-threaded Emacs Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:20:37 +0900 Message-ID: <87prkcetze.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <87abbiody1.fsf@master.homenet> <877i6l5d8s.fsf@master.homenet> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228083668 24791 80.91.229.12 (30 Nov 2008 22:21:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:21:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Giuseppe Scrivano Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 30 23:22:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L6ufw-0006ZL-OJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:22:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53982 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L6uem-00088m-KO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:20:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L6ueh-00088J-Q3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:20:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L6ueh-000883-9j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:20:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51239 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L6ueh-000880-7e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:20:43 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp12.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.74]:49705) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L6uee-0008HJ-2B; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:20:40 -0500 Original-Received: from 218.231.174.254.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.174.254] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp12.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1L6uec-00058b-1x; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:20:38 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E1F93DFD1; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 07:20:37 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <877i6l5d8s.fsf@master.homenet> (Giuseppe Scrivano's message of "Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:34:43 +0100") Original-Lines: 11 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:106346 Archived-At: BTW, there was a huge thread maybe a year (?) or so ago about this subject. Have you read it? IIRC, the basic consensus was that some sort of explicitly non-preemptive threading was probably the best solution for emacs. -Miles -- I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono album; no rhyme or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and then it's over. --Ian Wolff