From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian von Savigny Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: multithreading in Elisp? Date: 01 Jun 2003 20:46:20 +0200 Organization: Linux Private Site Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054490483 10107 80.91.224.249 (1 Jun 2003 18:01:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 18:01:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 01 20:01:19 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19MX8Z-0002an-00 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2003 20:00:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19MX8U-0005Of-SP for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2003 14:00:50 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!skynet.be!skynet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9506f4e.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Original-X-Trace: online.de 1054490202 7840 217.80.111.78 (1 Jun 2003 17:56:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 17:56:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113946 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10440 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10440 >>From what the belowmentioned Web pages seem to imply, it seems impossible to have an elisp program do some sort of "multithreading" whatsoever; I mean the simultaneous execution of tasks (writing simultaneously in two different buffers, for instance). Is that so? IOW, you /always/ have to wait for a function to finish? http://per.bothner.com/papers/Freenix00/Freenix00.html http://slashdot.org/articles/01/10/21/2329254.shtml -- Florian v. Savigny If you are going to reply in private, please be patient, as I only check for mail something like once a week. - Si vous allez répondre personellement, patientez s.v.p., car je ne lis les courriels qu'environ une fois par semaine.