On The Use(fullness) of make-thread Re: Async rebuild package-quickstart after packages update? was Re: 28.0.50; Proposal: slightly more efficient package-quickstart.el

[T.V Raman]

I remember that a lot of work went into integrating thread-support into
Emacs a few years ago and it sounded really promising.

I just did the following somewhat unscientific test to measure how much
usage it gets:

In the Emacs/lisp directory

find . -name '*.el' | xargs grep '(make-thread'
shows 0 hits.

I have about 200 packages installed in ~/.emacs.d/elpa and the same
command there also yields 0 hits.


Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Do we know what other "relevant variables" are here?
>
> If we're lucky the vars defined in package.el are all we need.
> But of course, the users may also be using a setup where the installed
> packages only work after running some of the `.emacs`.
>
> So one option is to transfer to the subprocess the current value of the
> vars defined in `package.el`.  Another is to tell the subprocess to read
> the init files.
>
> BTW, all these issues are faced (and partly solved) by the `async`
> package we have in GNU ELPA.  We really should try and include it into
> Emacs core.
>
>
>         Stefan
>
>

-- 

Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
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