Re:Emacs Is Not Just an Editor
by taeric on Monday March 13, 2023 @04:36PM
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Right. I know if you don't do the process buffer code, you can freeze things. And I can fully cede that doing that for elisp is weird. Same idea in a sly buffer, though, is fine.
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sly is easier, there the computation is done by a remote Common Lisp. But the danger may be long running output operations, unless they explicitly give up control for other (possibly green) threads.
But in a Lisp application to not be responsive at all is kind of rare. Most Lisp application runtimes will be able to process interrupts and/or switch "green threads" or "native threads".