Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer'

[Helmut Eller]

* Stefan Monnier [2011-02-01 15:43] writes:

>> Or, instead of the locks-and-condition-variables approach, go the CSP
>> route and have channels and channel-select.  This idea is making a
>> comeback, maybe it would fit well in Emacs Lisp.
>
> Erlang-style concurrency is nice and clean, but I'm not sure it'll
> integrate well with existing code which stomps over a global state all
> the time. This doesn't mean it won't work.  If we can make it work
> something like "one agent per buffer" and turn `set-buffer' into a kind
> of message maybe we could get some good results, but it seems tricky.

Erlang-style concurrency would be awesome.  Where can I vote for it :-)

Is there a way to evaluate the different approaches against each other?
What are the uses cases where concurrency should be used in the future?

Helmut