Re: advice needed for multi-threading patch

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>]

>>> That's wonderful.  Does that mean that Gnus really runs in its own
>>> thread while you can do normal editing in other buffers?
Giuseppe> Yes, it does (except some errors).  I am concentrating all my
Giuseppe> efforts on gnus, I think that if threads work well for gnus
Giuseppe> they will work quite well with any other package.
> This is awesome.

Indeed.

Giuseppe> At the moment it takes a lot to load folder, because there are
Giuseppe> not enough yield on the other thread and probably gnus switch
Giuseppe> buffers too often (causing a yield).
> I think we need to yield when a thread is waiting for I/O.  And, we
> probably need a way to associate a process filter with a thread, so that
> whatever input Gnus gets is processed in the right thread.

Since process filters are currently processed "asynchronously", it would
seem like a natural idea would be to create a thread for each process,
and let that thread run all the process's filters and sentinels.

While I'm here, there's of course another relevant test case: open Emacs
on several ttys, and run some long-running commands like indent-region
in each (in different buffers at first, and then in the same one, but
on different parts of the text, ...).


        Stefan