Re: Concurrency Library

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > I'm wondering if there's interest in a library which wraps threads,
  > > mutices and condition-variables into higher level constructs like
  > > futures, readers-writer locks, agents, concurrent queues etc. I'm
  > > considering this as a project for Summer of Code, but not sure if
  > > it's something others would want included with Emacs.

Adding these facilities to Emacs Lisp could be very nice.

  > I would love to see Clojure's core.async ported to elisp.

If "ported to Elisp" means adding its features to Emacs Lisp in a
clean way, I'm in favor.  But we should think about the interfaces and
consider whether some changes in them would fit Lisp better.  Clojure
is like Lisp in many ways, but it does not have Lisp lists.

If it means inserting the code used in Clojure into Emacs Lisp,
I think that isn't the way to do it right.

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