From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: John Wiegley <johnw@boostpro.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multithreading, again and again
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:05:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2zkgwprgw.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsjmohcat.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:01:55 -0400")
on Wed Oct 19 2011, Stefan Monnier <monnier-AT-IRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote:
>> There are packages that do this today and it works well, but IMO there's
>> insufficient standard infrastructure available to make it easy, and
>> that, in general, keeps packages from using process-level concurrency
>> effectively.
>
> Could point to those packages that do it? Without seeing examples it's
> difficult to know what kind of infrastructure would be handy.
For example el-get (http://github.com/dimitri/el-get) does autoload
generation and installation of some packages (e.g. wanderlust) this way.
>> For what it's worth, experiments show that launching Emacs
>> as a scripting engine (e.g. using it in a shebang) is actually more
>> efficient than launching some more traditional scripting languages.
>
> That's indeed unexpected. Can you point to some more details?
I think I need to ask John Wiegley to fill you in. He did the
experiments. John?
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-19 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-28 6:49 Multithreading, again and again Dmitry Antipov
2011-09-28 7:50 ` joakim
2011-09-28 7:55 ` Julien Danjou
2011-09-28 13:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-17 21:57 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-18 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-19 15:18 ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-19 20:51 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-19 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-19 22:05 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2011-10-20 23:00 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-20 23:52 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-20 14:08 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-20 1:12 ` SAKURAI Masashi
2011-10-20 17:09 ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-20 18:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-21 0:46 ` SAKURAI Masashi
2011-10-21 14:18 ` Nix
2011-10-21 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-22 3:40 ` SAKURAI Masashi
2011-10-22 19:30 ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-22 20:27 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-18 8:24 ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-28 15:55 ` Helmut Eller
2011-10-19 15:14 ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-19 15:20 ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-19 18:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-19 19:00 ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-19 21:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-20 17:07 ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-20 18:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-20 20:54 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-20 20:57 ` Tom Tromey
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