From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Helmut Eller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: multi-threaded Emacs Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:44:39 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87abbiody1.fsf@master.homenet> <877i6l5d8s.fsf@master.homenet> <874p1npvtj.fsf@master.homenet> <87ej0qci8g.fsf@master.homenet> <87y6yxm7xr.fsf@master.homenet> <87oczroysm.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 1228549495 6427 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2008 07:44:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 07:44:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 08:45:59 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 1L8rrR-0004UR-NQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:45:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54395 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L8rqG-0008Uw-Lw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:44:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L8rqA-0008Rs-KJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:44:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L8rq6-0008Op-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:44:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42454 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L8rq6-0008Om-M0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:44:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:53008) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L8rq6-0002DO-5j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:44:34 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L8rq2-0007OR-Mt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:44:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L8rpz-0007nB-S7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:44:27 +0000 Original-Received: from dialin-226057.rol.raiffeisen.net ([195.254.226.57]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:44:27 +0000 Original-Received: from eller.helmut by dialin-226057.rol.raiffeisen.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:44:27 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-226057.rol.raiffeisen.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TP9Cx8FLxNaDwDWwn3lPJLYLrGY= X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:106626 Archived-At: * Tom Tromey [2008-12-05 17:57+0100] writes: > The promise of threads isn't just that it can fix these, but that it > opens Emacs to new applications without hurting usability. Maybe > there are other ways to accomplish the same thing, though. It also opens possibilities for concurrency related bugs. We will see how it turns out. Helmut.