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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: |
Fri, 03 Jan 2020 08:06:40 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 11:45:51 +0800
> From: HaiJun Zhang <netjune@outlook.com>
> Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, arthur.miller@live.com,
> 38807@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> 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.
>
> Then 3 can be done in a separate thread from 2 and 1?
How would that help? Until 3 is done, the user doesn't see the
display updated. And if you think 3 doesn't touch any Lisp, then
thats not true, just see how many times you find "Lisp_Object" in,
say, xterm.c.
- bug#38807: [Feature request]: Support lisp workers like web workers., (continued)
bug#38807: [Feature request]: Support lisp workers like web workers., HaiJun Zhang, 2020/01/02
bug#38807: [Feature request]: Support lisp workers like web workers., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/01
bug#38807: [Feature request]: Support lisp workers like web workers., arthur miller, 2020/01/03