From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Elisp containers
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 14:08:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpnxpfao5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2lg8dp511.fsf@newartisans.com> (John Wiegley's message of "Fri, 07 Sep 2018 10:54:18 -0700")
> SM> This would be like running Elisp in a separate process, except that it's
> SM> not a separate process, so communication between two containers can be
> SM> very efficient (e.g. you can send a buffer from one container to the other
> SM> as efficiently as you can send an integer).
> So the motivation is just efficiency?
Yes, I'm thinking of cases where there's fine-grained communication:
pass a buffer to the other container which does a quick change then
returns the buffer, etc...
> I think it costs <50ms to spawn an Emacs child process using async.el
> to load and query something in it.
Yes, maybe it's good enough, indeed.
Has anyone tried to use async for elisp--local-variables?
Same for Gnus and/or EWW?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-07 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-07 14:38 Elisp containers Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 17:54 ` John Wiegley
2018-09-07 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-09-07 18:25 ` John Wiegley
2018-09-07 18:04 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-09-07 20:13 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-08 19:25 ` Vladimir Sedach
2018-09-09 18:53 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-08 5:14 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-08 5:45 ` Helmut Eller
2018-09-08 17:56 ` Stefan Monnier
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=jwvpnxpfao5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org \
--to=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.