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Re: Asynchronous insertion / saving of buffers
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Michael Albinus |
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Re: Asynchronous insertion / saving of buffers |
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:57:04 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> With threads you could "just" do something like
>
> (run-thread (lambda ()
> (insert-file-contents ...)
> ...))
>
> so there'd be no need to provide new asynchronous versions of things
> like insert-file-contents.
But you still need a mean to inform the caller, that the parallel action
has been finished. And you need a mean to lock the buffer, while
insert-file-contents modifies it.
I haven't read the doc in the concurrency branch, maybe this would
answer my questions.
> Stefan
Best regards, Michael.
Re: Asynchronous insertion / saving of buffers, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/04/13