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Re: HOWTO: lightning fast Emacs on Linux multicore


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: HOWTO: lightning fast Emacs on Linux multicore
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 05:42:32 +0200

> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:39:40 -0700
> From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
> 
> But even when working almost entirely within emacs the emacs process
> itself will depending upon what you are doing eventually spawn
> children processes.

Right.  Moreover, Emacs nowadays uses more than one thread, at least
when built with GTK.  And the OS itself uses more than one thread when
it services system requests on Emacs's behalf.

So running one program certainly doesn't mean one execution unit is
enough, or optimal.



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