From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multithreading, again and again Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:57:52 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87vcrne2pv.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <4E82C377.4040007@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318889171 28063 80.91.229.12 (17 Oct 2011 22:06:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:06:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dmitry Antipov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 18 00:06:06 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RFvJu-0000Jh-9v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:06:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44839 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFvJt-0006Bo-QW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:06:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52581) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFvJq-0006BR-Jr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:06:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFvJo-0007gE-U5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:06:02 -0400 Original-Received: from smarty.dreamhost.com ([208.113.175.8]:36746) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFvJo-0007fq-Om for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:06:00 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhostps.com (ps18281.dreamhost.com [69.163.218.105]) by smarty.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 624C36E804D; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:05:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3489C451C426; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:05:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:37:02 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.113.175.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145279 Archived-At: > I don't think there is such a consensus, but better support for > concurrency is something I consider important. It is currently much too > difficult to implement "asynchronous article fetch" and things like that. "Asynchronous article fetch" could be implemented with a simpler approach to run code in a "sandbox" similarly to HTML5 "workers" that run computationally expensive scripts in the background independently of any user interface scripts that allows for long-running scripts to be executed without yielding to keep the application responsive. More at: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/workers.html