From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: SAKURAI Masashi <m.sakurai@kiwanami.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multithreading, again and again
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:09:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m339enpp2u.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111020011234.2CE4113C57A@vps1.kiwanami.net> (SAKURAI Masashi's message of "Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:12:13 +0900")
>>>>> ">" == SAKURAI Masashi <m.sakurai@kiwanami.net> writes:
>> Actually, many scripting language could not get true concurrency by
>> the appended thread feature, such as Perl's ithread, ruby's thread,
>> python's one and so on. They have the GIL problem.
Yeah. On my branch, Emacs also has the GIL problem.
I don't consider it a big deal, since Emacs is also not a high
performance system.
>> Multi-threading and GUI is very sensitive topic.
>> Multithreaded toolkits: A failed dream? | Java.net
>> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kgh/archive/2004/10/multithreaded_t.html
>> I think this problem exists in Emacs too.
Emacs doesn't have this problem in the classic way, because most GUI
operations in Emacs Lisp are actually side effects of buffer- or keymap-
modifications.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-20 17:09 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
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 [this message]
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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