Re: Emacs design and architecture. How about copy-on-write?

[Emanuel Berg]

Ihor Radchenko wrote:

>>> https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/871qhnr4ty.fsf@localhost/
>>
>> Yeah, but instead of adopting the lock mechanism to take
>> into account a possibly huge amount of such cases the lock
>> mechanism should be solid and work the same way for
>> everyone and everything. [...]
>
> Sorry, but I am completely lost. Cannot understand what you
> are trying to propose.

We can't build a new solution filled with exceptions so it
won't break existing programs that were programmed for
another solution.

Instead we have to focus on the new solution and old programs
that break will have to be adopted to the new solution - or
discarded even, sometimes.

So one should create a minimal scenario that still includes
everything that can happen, and the worst case at that. If our
solution can solve that, then that's it.

So what is the base case? A global variable with two threads
that read, and two that write? And what is the worst case of
that base case? All of that happening at once?

When this "worst-case base case" is identified and solved in
a good way, whatever existing code that now breaks will have
to be modified.

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