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Re: async-eval 0.1 -- execute Emacs lisp in a separate process


From: Elena
Subject: Re: async-eval 0.1 -- execute Emacs lisp in a separate process
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:49:26 -0700 (PDT)
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On 9 Mar, 14:12, Nikolaj Schumacher <address@hidden> wrote:
> Since Emacs isn't capable of multi-threaded lisp, I've played around
> with executing large background tasks in a separate process and
> returning the results.
>
> The code is attached and also available 
> from:http://nschum.de/src/emacs/async-eval/
>
> If anybody has a "real world" use for this, please let me know.
> I'd also appreciate any comments and ideas.

Very nice!

Let the folks at gnu.emacs.gnus know. I've read that Gnus users are
used to start a different Emacs just for Gnus because otherwise they
would have to wait while Gnus is performing some lengthy network
operation.


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