From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? Date: 02 Dec 2003 12:27:22 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87oevbes4h.fsf@emacswiki.org> <20031117040607.C6C5D79B72@server2.messagingengine.com> <87ekvpx18d.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> <4nad6cikxy.fsf@holmes.bwh.harvard.edu> <33AB7A8C-24D6-11D8-9D12-000A95D9C74C@fugue.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070388964 13410 80.91.224.253 (2 Dec 2003 18:16:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:16:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 02 19:16:01 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ARF45-0004cm-00 for ; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:16:01 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ARF45-0000nN-00 for ; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:16:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ARG19-0004nu-9c for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:17:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ARFHy-0007M5-6n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:30:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ARFGv-0007Ca-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:29:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ARFGZ-0006qo-Qd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:28:55 -0500 Original-Received: from vor.iro.umontreal.ca (vor.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.42]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hB2HRMbj029651; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:27:22 -0500 Original-Received: by vor.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8F1143C63E; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:27:22 -0500 (EST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18289 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18289 >> What is it about Emacs that makes it worth a major rewrite in order >> to make it multithreaded? > Gnus. Wouldn't Gnus be happy enough with cooperative multithreading ? I keep thinking that we should provide a way to specify background tasks that we can run while idle. It can already be done in elisp, but it's rather painful. Stefan