From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: the state of the concurrency branch Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:13:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871u3js17r.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382120064 11134 80.91.229.3 (18 Oct 2013 18:14:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 18:14:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Barry OReilly , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 18 20:14:25 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VXEZ6-0003RV-O1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:14:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXEZ6-00047T-7n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:14:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45328) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXEYw-000479-Pq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:14:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXEYm-0006dF-5F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:14:14 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:58005) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXEYm-0006d7-0k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:14:04 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id r9IIDuh7004607; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:13:56 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D45CAB4162; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:13:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <871u3js17r.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:32:40 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Level: X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered GEN_SPAM_FEATRE=0.2, RV4735=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9362 : core <4735> : inlines <156> : streams <1058162> : uri <1569342> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164320 Archived-At: > It seems reasonable to me. However I wonder whether timers ought to be > thread-locked the way that processes are. Ideally, neither should be thread-locked. So I'd rather not lock it/them unless it's needed for backward compatibility. Stefan