From: Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: multi-threaded Emacs
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:02:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1L7Xhu-0006DQ-HE@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874p1npvtj.fsf@master.homenet> (message from Giuseppe Scrivano on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:57:44 +0100)
If an Elisp primitive is
waiting for some data from a file or a socket, Emacs will hang until it
is ready.
This is a real issue, but the solution is so easy
that it is not a real problem.
Activies that can wait a long time
use wait_reading_process_output
which already implements some parallelism.
Naturally we would arrange to enable thread-switching there.
IMHO, concurrent threads itself are not very useful, they can be useful
if considered a first step in the direction of a real parallelism.
If "concurrent threads" means "threads that can only switch where the
program lets them", they are very useful in Emacs for the sake of multiple
terminals.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-02 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-29 13:32 multi-threaded Emacs Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-29 20:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-29 21:01 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-29 22:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-30 11:35 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-30 21:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-30 22:25 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-30 23:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-30 23:30 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-01 3:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-06 22:50 ` Tom Tromey
2008-12-07 3:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-29 22:06 ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-30 16:43 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-11-30 17:34 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-30 21:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-30 22:10 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-30 22:20 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-30 23:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-30 23:09 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-01 0:10 ` Chetan Pandya
2008-12-01 3:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-01 14:06 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-01 18:57 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-01 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-01 22:41 ` joakim
2008-12-02 16:02 ` Richard M Stallman [this message]
2008-12-02 22:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-02 22:41 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-03 2:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-03 18:26 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-03 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-05 2:59 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-05 7:40 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-05 8:20 ` Miles Bader
2008-12-05 9:42 ` Paul R
2008-12-05 10:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-05 10:35 ` Paul R
2008-12-05 11:02 ` Helmut Eller
2008-12-05 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-05 16:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-05 16:57 ` Tom Tromey
2008-12-06 4:41 ` Miles Bader
2008-12-06 7:44 ` Helmut Eller
2008-12-06 22:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-06 8:30 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-05 15:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-06 19:25 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-06 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-06 23:41 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-07 20:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-07 23:51 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-08 3:06 ` Chetan Pandya
2008-12-08 15:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-07 16:02 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-07 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-07 16:15 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-08 18:26 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-08 19:49 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-09 2:15 ` dhruva
2008-12-09 2:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-09 2:53 ` dhruva
2008-12-09 9:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-12-09 17:26 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-09 19:10 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-10 18:18 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-10 18:18 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-09 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-10 18:18 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-11 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-11 14:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-11 18:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-11 18:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-11 19:01 ` Paul R
2008-12-11 20:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-12 19:03 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-13 3:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-11 19:07 ` Paul R
2008-12-11 20:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-05 2:59 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-05 15:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-02 23:10 ` Florian Beck
2008-11-30 22:17 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-30 16:44 ` Richard M Stallman
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2008-12-03 7:59 Re[2]: " ak70
2008-12-04 8:45 ` Richard M Stallman
[not found] ` <87prk8mhg9.fsf@vanilla.net.mt>
[not found] ` <E1L8ZUB-0002x3-VT@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-12-05 13:27 ` Li Lin
[not found] ` <87prk64ilv.fsf@vanilla.net.mt>
2008-12-05 18:37 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-06 21:58 ` Magnus Henoch
2008-12-04 13:21 ` Stefan Monnier
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