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bug#38807: [Feature request]: Support lisp workers like web workers.


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#38807: [Feature request]: Support lisp workers like web workers.
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:23:42 +0200

> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 13:27:44 +0800
> From: HaiJun Zhang <netjune@outlook.com>
> 
> I think the web worker is a good design for GUI applications such as web 
> browser. The workers do heavy
> work and provide the results to the UI thread. The UI thread only displays 
> the result and responds to user
> input events which makes good user responsiveness. 
> 
> The web workers run in other context. They can’t access data in the UI 
> thread. They can only communicate
> with the UI thread by calling some limited APIs.

We have threads in Emacs, so you could start by using them, no?





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