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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>,
	Karthik Chikmagalur <karthikchikmagalur@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>,
	"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2023 21:51:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bf80bfdf-a91e-726d-99ae-b981d1ffc9c7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mt3pr4sa.fsf@yahoo.com>

On 4/2/2023 9:03 PM, Po Lu wrote:
> I have not looked carefully at this thread, but I would hope that if
> people are discussing a way to add multiprocessing to Emacs, we settle
> on separate threads of execution executing in parallel, with all the
> interlocking necessary to make that happen, like in most Unix thread
> implementations.

Indeed, one of my hopes is to have a way to package some task so that 
(eventually) it can be run on another thread, and everything Just Works. 
 From one of my previous messages on the subject[1]:

On 3/11/2023 5:45 PM, Jim Porter wrote:
 > If it were easier to divide up long-running tasks into small chunks,
 > that would go a long way towards solving these sorts of issues.
 >
 > (In theory, you could even get real multithreading this way, if you
 > could divide up your task in a way that Emacs could be sure some chunk
 > can be offloaded onto another thread.)

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-03/msg00472.html



  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-03  4:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-11 12:53 continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE Thomas Koch
2023-03-12  1:45 ` Jim Porter
2023-03-12  6:33   ` tomas
2023-03-14  6:39   ` Karthik Chikmagalur
2023-03-14 18:58     ` Jim Porter
2023-03-15 17:48       ` Stefan Monnier
2023-03-17  0:17         ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-03-17  3:08           ` Stefan Monnier
2023-03-17  5:37             ` Jim Porter
2023-03-25 18:42             ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-03-26 19:35               ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-03-28  7:23                 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-03-29 19:00                 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-03  0:39                   ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-04-03  1:44                     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-04-03  2:09                     ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-03  4:03                       ` Po Lu
2023-04-03  4:51                         ` Jim Porter [this message]
2023-04-10 21:47                       ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-04-11  2:53                         ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-11 19:59                           ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-04-11 20:22                             ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-11 23:07                               ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-04-12  6:13                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-17 20:51                                   ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-04-18  2:25                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-18  5:01                                       ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-04-18 10:35                                       ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-04-18 15:31                                         ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-03-29 18:47               ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-17  3:46                 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-04-17 19:50                   ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-18  2:56                     ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-04-18  3:48                       ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-22  2:48                         ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-04-18  6:19                     ` Jim Porter
2023-04-18  9:52                       ` Po Lu
2023-04-18 12:38                         ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-04-18 13:14                         ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-19  0:28                           ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2023-04-19  2:59                             ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-19 13:25                               ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-04-19 13:34                                 ` Robert Pluim
2023-04-19 14:19                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-21  1:33                                     ` Richard Stallman
2023-04-19  1:11                           ` Po Lu
2023-04-17 21:00                   ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-03-14  3:58 ` Richard Stallman
2023-03-14  6:28   ` Jim Porter
2023-03-16 21:35 ` miha
2023-03-16 22:14   ` Jim Porter
2023-03-25 21:05 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-03-26 23:50 ` Tomas Hlavaty

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