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From: "John Wiegley" <johnw@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Elisp containers
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 10:54:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lg8dp511.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr2i5iee1.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 07 Sep 2018 10:38:18 -0400")

>>>>> "SM" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

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? I think it costs <50ms to spawn an Emacs
child process using async.el to load and query something in it.

-- 
John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2



  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-07 17:54 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 [this message]
2018-09-07 18:08   ` Stefan Monnier
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

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