Re: How about running some slave lisp virtual machines in emacs to do background work?

[Zhang Haijun]

Find something similar (web worker):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers_API/Using_web_workers


On 06/29/2018 12:39 AM, jun wrote:
> The slave lisp machine knows nothing in the master lisp machine 
> (buffers, windows, frames ...), and it can't interact with the user. 
> They are just background workers, and can only run lisp code in it's own 
> environment.
> 
> Every slave machine is standalone, and doesn't share data with other 
> machines(maybe can share copy-on-write data). So it can be fully 
> multi-threading and can do heavy computing work.
> 
> Lisp programs in the main machine can send tasks(or lisp codes) to slave 
> machines, and wait for results. And programs in the slave machine can 
> send notifications to the master machine. Here they need a IPC framework 
> to work better with each other.
> 
> The slave lisp machines may be limited to be a sandbox to run only safe 
> codes.
> 
> Lisp programs in the master machine can create slave machines to use.
> 
> Something like async.el, but can share data more efficiently.