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Is the lack of multithreading support in emacs a dealbreaker for you? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by saarin@alien.top to c/emacs@communick.news
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[–] -dag-@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dealbreaker? No. Major issue? Yes.

Anything over network really needs multithreading. The async hacks are ok, but eventually everything has to sync up again, which is a giant freeze on everything.

[–] nv-elisp@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What evidence do you have for this?

[–] -dag-@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Magit

[–] terminal_prognosis@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Networking activity is a prime example of something where threading is least likely to be a clearly superior solution. Heavy CPU use is where threading may be the superior choice and a single event-loop thread is not. IO waiting is not.