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Re: [O] What HW/SW issues influence org/Emacs performance?


From: Achim Gratz
Subject: Re: [O] What HW/SW issues influence org/Emacs performance?
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:23:25 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux)

Karl Voit writes:
> On my system [3] I notice 100% load on one of my two cores when
> Emacs is generating the agenda views. So I am not sure whether more
> cores could increase the performance. Probably a faster CPU? Is
> there something that makes Emacs use multiple cores in parallel?

No, Emacs is strictly single-threaded and will probably remain that way
for quite some time.  Note that there is talk to add concurrency support
to Emacs, but even then only one of those "Emacs threads" can run at any
given instant.  So this will help if some of those threads would
otherwise busy-wait on something, but not if there is a compute-bound
thread.  Nobody wants to open the can of worms that a truly
multithreaded ELisp is…


Regards,
Achim.
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