From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer' Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:42:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296615279 5333 80.91.229.12 (2 Feb 2011 02:54:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 02:54:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 02 03:54:34 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PkSrD-0002px-9n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:54:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60542 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PkSr2-0007Fb-46 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:54:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53831 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PkSpf-0006GF-4v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:52:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PkSfm-0002hJ-OE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:42:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:46980) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PkSfm-0002hD-Mi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:42:22 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PkSfi-0007UP-CC; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:42:18 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Tom Tromey on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:44:59 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:135444 Archived-At: RMS> This seems to give the right semantics, but having a pointer in RMS> each thread for each DEFVAR_LISP variable makes threads rather RMS> heavy. How many such variables are there now? I'd expect RMS> thousands. 562. Fewer than I thought. I suppose 2k is not a big deal compared with a real thread that executes concurrently. So I withdraw that criticism. However, the job of rewriting the code to work concurrently could be enormous. -- Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org