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Re: It's almost 2016 and when (single-threaded) Emacs hangs, you gotta b


From: Random832
Subject: Re: It's almost 2016 and when (single-threaded) Emacs hangs, you gotta be smashing your keyboard!
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:43:50 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
> How will multi-threading fix that? Sure, Emacs might keep working in
> the other buffers, but now you have a frozen/dead thread on your
> hands, which probably takes up 100% CPU.

Why would it take 100% CPU? We're talking about an I/O wait.

> And if the UI is still
> working, you're free to create more frozen threads like that.

But he's also free to go do something else that doesn't require reading
from that directory, or waiting for a connection to time out, etc.




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