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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: |
Wed, 01 Jan 2020 18:23:29 +0200 |
> Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 11:47:49 +0800
> From: HaiJun Zhang <netjune@outlook.com>
> Cc: "38807@debbugs.gnu.org" <38807@debbugs.gnu.org>
>
> My understanding of the display flow:
> 1. an event comes which causes redisplay
More often than not, it is not an event, but a command that changes
Lisp data (buffer text, overlays, text properties, position of point,
new or deleted windows, etc.).
> 2. the display engine prepares the glyph matrix
> 3. convert the glyph matrix to bitmap and display it
>
> I think lots of work are in 2.
Actually, 3 is also a lot of work.
bug#38807: [Feature request]: Support lisp workers like web workers.,
Eli Zaretskii <=
bug#38807: [Feature request]: Support lisp workers like web workers., arthur miller, 2020/01/03