Re: beginners elisp question - parallel execution

[Qiantan Hong]

I think the ’side-effect-free symbol property does this.

> On Nov 17, 2020, at 1:01 PM, simon254@mailbox.org wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> sorry if this is a very dumb question:
> 
> in the past there were discussions about multi threading in emacs. My 
> impression is that where most of a performance gain like this would be useful 
> is for e.g. computing fuzzy scores for a long list of candidates or similar 
> things. 
> 
> Would it be possible to introduce something like pure functions in fortran 
> too elisp? I.e. functions that are not allowed to have side effects and for 
> example act only on one list element? This could then be given to a new 
> "number crunching" routine (mapcar_para?) which applies them in parallel to a 
> list (via openmp or whatever)? Or is the concept already flawed? 
> 
> Again, sorry if this is dumb,
> 
> Simon
>

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