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Re: Current Emacs Development
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Jason Earl |
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Re: Current Emacs Development |
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Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:58:42 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Tue, Feb 01 2011, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I lurk on emacs-devel, and apparently Tom Tromey has a multi-threading
>> branch that is getting ready to be merged to trunk. In fact, I think
>> that it would be merged already, but they've had issues with the Windows
>> build stuff.
>
> That's not quite what is happening. There is a concurrency branch
> that provides a proof-of-concept implementation of cooperative
> multithreading. Tom is working on updating the branch to be in sync
> with the current trunk, and he's also working on including the
> refactoring part of that branch into the trunk, so that the
> concurrency branch is easier to maintain while still being outside of
> the trunk.
>
> We had plans to possibly include the concurrency branch into 24 as an
> experimental feature. It's still not clear whether that will happen
> or not. I'm personally more concerned with merging the
> lexical-scoping branch for Emacs-24 (and I think lexical-scoping is an
> important prerequisite for concurrency), but that also needs some more
> work.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Jason