From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Example of threads and concurrency?
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 14:43:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-9aqmEUCF+BoR_ieVhoG0zKwanJLxKXNtfpsw1wh4QoLA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83shnbp9q0.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
>> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 14:23:22 -0500
>> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Eric Abrahamsen
>> <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>> >> I update the variable with a time-consuming/network-bound
>> >> computation. I want the computation to happen in a thread so it
>> >> doesn't block,
>>
>> You're out of luck, only one thread runs at a time.
>
> Only one thread runs at a time, but "network-bound" sounds like it
> could yield from time to time, if it calls accept-process-output and
> its ilk.
Oh, I missed the "network" part of that indeed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-18 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-10 19:44 Example of threads and concurrency? Eric Abrahamsen
2017-02-18 18:43 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-02-18 19:23 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-02-18 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-18 19:43 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2017-02-18 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-18 20:40 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-02-19 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-19 19:50 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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