GNU bug report logs - #38807
[Feature request]: Support lisp workers like web workers.

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: HaiJun Zhang <netjune <at> outlook.com>

Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 05:29:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

Message #11 received at 38807 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, HaiJun Zhang <netjune <at> outlook.com>
Cc: 38807 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38807: [Feature request]: Support lisp workers like web
 workers.
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 18:40:49 +0300

On 30.12.2019 17:23, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> We have threads in Emacs, so you could start by using them, no?

The main point of Web Workers is that they run in parallel to the main 
thread.

So the bit about not being able to access "data in the UI thread" is 
about no need for synchronization, I suppose.
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 63 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.