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From: jhd <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Magnus Henoch <mange@freemail.hu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Threads in emacs implementation
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:23:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C153DBF4-50CD-490C-ABD3-396FFCD4A3AA@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vf4oaao5.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk>

>> The greatest obstacle to this seems to be shallow binding - you'd  
>> have
>> to unwind one thread's stack and rewind another's when switching
>> threads.  Maybe there's an easier way that I don't see...
>>
>
> I don't see why this subject keeps coming up.
>
> We don't need threads in elisp. Just more asynchronous network
> implementations.
>
> Anyway, async code is so much more fun to write than threaded
> code. Threads are for beginners.

Async network code won't take advantage of multiple CPU:s.  Threads do.

     Jan D.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-08 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-07  2:22 Threads in emacs implementation Denis Bueno
2005-06-07  2:52 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-07  2:59   ` Denis Bueno
2005-06-07  4:26     ` Miles Bader
2005-06-07  5:16 ` Ken Raeburn
2005-06-07 10:37   ` Nic Ferrier
2005-06-08 12:02   ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-08 18:01 ` Magnus Henoch
2005-06-08 19:52   ` Nic Ferrier
2005-06-08 20:23     ` jhd [this message]
2005-06-08 20:47       ` Nic Ferrier
2005-06-08 22:50         ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-08 21:43     ` Magnus Henoch
2005-06-08 22:26       ` Nic Ferrier
2005-06-08 22:34       ` hidden buffers for async (was Re: Threads in emacs implementation) Nic Ferrier
2005-06-08 23:36         ` Miles Bader
2005-06-10  0:13         ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-10  1:15           ` hidden buffers for async Nic Ferrier
2005-06-10  1:32             ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-10  1:59               ` Nic Ferrier
2005-06-10 22:37             ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-11 20:26               ` Nic Ferrier
2005-06-11 21:05                 ` Henrik Enberg
2005-06-12 10:30                 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-12 19:48                   ` Nic Ferrier
2005-06-13 15:03                     ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-12 17:18                 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-13  6:03                   ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-09 14:41       ` Threads in emacs implementation Richard Stallman
2005-06-09 14:40   ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-10 19:09     ` Ted Zlatanov
2005-06-11  3:48       ` Masatake YAMATO
2005-06-11 12:18       ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-15 15:59         ` Ted Zlatanov
2005-06-15 23:26           ` Miles Bader
2005-06-16 16:25             ` Ted Zlatanov
2005-06-17  0:56               ` Miles Bader
2005-06-17 14:09                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2005-06-17 18:47                   ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-20 18:04                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2005-06-21 15:13                       ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-21 18:36                         ` Nic Ferrier
2005-06-22  3:40                           ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-20  2:11                   ` Miles Bader
2005-06-20 10:28                     ` Nic Ferrier
2005-06-20 11:19                       ` Lennart Borgman
2005-06-20 11:48                       ` David Kastrup
2005-06-20 12:07                         ` Nic Ferrier
2005-06-20 17:52                     ` Ted Zlatanov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-08  8:24 tomas
2005-06-09  0:29 Steven Wu

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