Fwd: A completely pre-emptive time sharing system for GNU Emacs

Fwd: A completely pre-emptive time sharing system for GNU Emacs

[Davin Pearson]

On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 4:58:57 PM UTC+13, Davin Pearson wrote:
>
> Michael Abraham Shulman has written a coroutine feature for 
> Emacs at the following location. 
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/coroutine.el 
>
> I am about to write a completely pre-emptive time-sharing system 
> but first I need to know if I will be re-inventing the wheel. 
>
> I hope my contribution to GNU Emacs is helpful for all the 
> programmers out there who agonize over GNUS busy waiting all the 
> time. 
>
>

Re: Fwd: A completely pre-emptive time sharing system for GNU Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Michael Abraham Shulman has written a coroutine feature for 
>> Emacs at the following location.
>> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/coroutine.el 

Current Emacsen come with generator.el which pushes this same idea
a good bit further (using a CPS-style translation).

>> I am about to write a completely pre-emptive time-sharing system 
>> but first I need to know if I will be re-inventing the wheel. 

Depends how you do it, but if I interpret this naively, then no,
definitely not.


        Stefan

Re: Fwd: A completely pre-emptive time sharing system for GNU Emacs

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> I am about to write a completely pre-emptive
>> time-sharing system but first I need to know
>> if I will be re-inventing the wheel.
>
> Depends how you do it, but if I interpret
> this naively, then no, definitely not.

I always thought Emacs had the kernel process
plus the "collaborative" idle timer and that
was just about it?

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