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Re: Example of threads and concurrency?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Example of threads and concurrency? |
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Sat, 18 Feb 2017 21:41:59 +0200 |
> From: Noam Postavsky <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 14:23:22 -0500
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
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> On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Eric Abrahamsen
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> I update the variable with a time-consuming/network-bound
> >> computation. I want the computation to happen in a thread so it
> >> doesn't block,
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> You're out of luck, only one thread runs at a time.
Only one thread runs at a time, but "network-bound" sounds like it
could yield from time to time, if it calls accept-process-output and
its ilk.