From: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: CSP for Elisp?
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:00:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHa53uxUzkZhgr4H5z7FxFYkfCcYBWTRiynbO6z-ma+4viummA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwveh9lb54z.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org>
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Just to be sure that we're both talking about the same thing, I'm
>> referring to ['concurrency', not 'parallelism'][pike].
>
> Yes, definitely concurrency.
>
> My understanding is that cooperative threading could be in Emacs-25, if
> a few people put enough work into it. There was a proof-of-concept
> "working" a couple years ago (IIUC Gnus could run in its own thread).
>
> For true concurrency in Elisp you might have to wait for Emacs-30.
> Tho you might get true concurrency in Emacs sooner if we switch
> to Guile.
Awesome. I can't necessarily say that I'll be able to help at all but
I'll certainly check out that branch. Are there design docs or
discussions floating around anywhere?
--
In Christ,
Timmy V.
http://blog.twonegatives.com/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-23 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-22 15:35 CSP for Elisp? Tim Visher
2013-08-22 18:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-22 18:43 ` Tim Visher
2013-08-23 0:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-23 19:00 ` Tim Visher [this message]
2013-08-24 14:06 ` Stefan Monnier
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