From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer' Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:47:51 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4D46E75E.7080503@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297046886 1834 80.91.229.12 (7 Feb 2011 02:48:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 02:48:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Helmut Eller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 07 03:48:01 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PmH8z-0005Vo-I3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 03:48:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54539 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PmH8z-0007qS-6m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:48:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49548 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PmH8u-0007oE-5T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:47:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PmH8t-0000m2-5V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:47:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:10483) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PmH8s-0000lv-ON for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:47:55 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p172lqN4008250 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 6 Feb 2011 21:47:52 -0500 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p172lqlw017524; Sun, 6 Feb 2011 21:47:52 -0500 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p172lpcQ010933; Sun, 6 Feb 2011 21:47:52 -0500 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 7B1DB378307; Sun, 6 Feb 2011 19:47:51 -0700 (MST) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Helmut Eller's message of "Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:28:02 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.22 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 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:135666 Archived-At: >>>>> "Helmut" == Helmut Eller writes: Helmut> Is there a way to evaluate the different approaches against each Helmut> other? I think only based on your experiences reading and writing Emacs Lisp code, and to a somewhat lesser degree your experiences with other threaded programs. Helmut> What are the uses cases where concurrency should be used in the Helmut> future? My earlier target was gnus, but I think Lars has probably already rewritten all the slow bits. Surely making it fully async can't be far behind :-) Now I think my main interest is in making it possible for different keyboards to run in parallel. This would make it possible to, e.g., connect `emacsclient -t' to Emacs and do stuff while gnus or something is blocking in another frame (initially for "blocking" meaning "waiting for I/O"). Beyond that, I don't have anything specific. Making the GC run in parallel would be cool, and is something I have looked into, but it isn't a lisp-level problem. Tom