From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Per Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:03:01 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87oevbes4h.fsf@emacswiki.org> <20031117040607.C6C5D79B72@server2.messagingengine.com> <87ekvpx18d.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> <4nad6cikxy.fsf@holmes.bwh.harvard.edu> <33AB7A8C-24D6-11D8-9D12-000A95D9C74C@fugue.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070457002 23804 80.91.224.253 (3 Dec 2003 13:10:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:10:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 03 14:09:59 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ARWlT-0000FJ-00 for ; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:09:59 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ARWlT-0007tN-00 for ; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:09:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ARXgk-0002aH-QJ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 09:09:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ARXg1-0002Qs-DG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 09:08:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ARXfU-00023W-7O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 09:08:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ARXcH-0001Hp-Od for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 09:04:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ARWek-0002cG-00 for ; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:03:02 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ARWej-0002c8-00 for ; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:03:01 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ARWej-0005ze-00 for ; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:03:01 +0100 Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Face: +kRV2]2q}lixHkE{U)mY#+6]{AH=yN~S9@IFiOa@X6?GM|8MBp/ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FtQJzvqgwnVhyxA928W0RwjNLcY= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18319 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18319 Simon Josefsson writes: > Blocking the GUI to wait for data from the network is poor > engineering. Blocking the GUI to wait for the result of a computation is poor engineering as well.