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: multi-threaded Emacs Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:31:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87abbiody1.fsf@master.homenet> <873ahant5l.fsf@master.homenet> <87bpvx5tw1.fsf@master.homenet> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228620737 24497 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2008 03:32:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 03:32:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Giuseppe Scrivano , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 07 04:33:23 2008 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 4.50) id 1L9AOY-0002su-1h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:33:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54273 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L9ANN-0000bC-49 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:32:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L9ANI-0000aB-MQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:32:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L9ANH-0000Ze-6o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:32:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44708 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L9ANH-0000Zb-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:32:03 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:61083 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L9ANF-00088V-Hc; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:32:01 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgUFAH/SOknO+Jkl/2dsb2JhbACBbcphgwWBJg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,727,1220241600"; d="scan'208";a="30748452" Original-Received: from 206-248-153-37.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.153.37]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 06 Dec 2008 22:31:59 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id F35238219; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 22:31:58 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Tom Tromey's message of "Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:50:26 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:106643 Archived-At: >>> Do you see any situation that there is need to store a value on a >>> specific thread? Stefan> let-binding, of course. It's probably the only one that matters Stefan> (besides the internal ones like current_buffer). > I've been wondering how `flet' will be handled. Good question. Luckily, it's too often used and it's easy to grep for it, so it hopefully will be fixable somehow, although it may require a completely different implementation technique, or different semantics. Stefan