Re: Concurrency via isolated process/thread

[tomas]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2023 at 01:51:42PM +0800, Po Lu wrote:
> <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
> 
> > The tendency, though, seems to be to avoid interlocking as much as possible
> > and use "transactional" data structures [1]. Which is an order of magnitude
> > more "interesting" :-)
> 
> They are unfortunately not relevant to Emacs, since their use pertains
> to programs that were designed to run in multiple processor environments
> almost from the very start.  On the other hand, Unix is a large and
> ancient program with vast amounts of global state, that was still
> modified to run in SMP environments, making its development experiences
> directly relevant to Emacs.

My point, too. Very few user space applications need the techniques
discussed in that book. I'd even venture that very few need heavy
interlocking, but this has been a topic in this thread.

Reducing blocking waits for external stuff (processes, network) would
already be a lofty goal for Emacs, and far more attainable, I think.

Cheers
-- 
t

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