From: "Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Threading IO-bound functions
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:01:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADtN0WLFxqotPLo0ihPcQAAUVR8hxf53fB9-21rQfn6v3LwyFA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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The number one function that I call that sometimes hang for a significant
amount of time is ‘gnus’. I decided to try running it in a thread, and it
worked surprisingly well. Initial loading of the messages can now be done
in the background.
To prevent myself from running this function more than once at the same
time, I created a wrapper function for this, and I have extracted it into a
macro.
I'd like to have people's opinions on this strategy, and if it might be
reasonable to default ‘gnus’ to do this when run on Emacs versions with
concurrency support.
(defmacro define-background-function-wrapper (bg-function fn)
(let ((is-loading-sym (intern (concat "*" (symbol-name bg-function)
"-is-loading*"))))
`(progn
(defvar ,is-loading-sym nil)
(defun ,bg-function ()
(interactive)
(when ,is-loading-sym
(message ,(concat (symbol-name fn) " is already loading")))
(setq ,is-loading-sym t)
(make-thread (lambda ()
(unwind-protect
(,fn)
(setq ,is-loading-sym nil))))))))
It's invoked like ‘(define-background-function-wrapper bg-gnus gnus)’. This
will then define the function ‘bg-gnus’ that runs ‘gnus‘ in a thread.
Regards,
Elias
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next reply other threads:[~2016-12-15 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-15 4:01 Elias Mårtenson [this message]
2016-12-16 15:26 ` Threading IO-bound functions Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-19 3:03 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-19 3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-19 7:06 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-19 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-19 17:43 ` The event handling thread (was: Threading IO-bound functions) John Wiegley
2016-12-20 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-21 1:04 ` The event handling thread John Wiegley
2016-12-21 11:05 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-21 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-22 3:12 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-22 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-16 22:05 ` Threading IO-bound functions Ken Raeburn
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