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[#askfedi] What is going be Emacs's solution for UI freezing? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Emacs UI usually stop responding when it performs a long task, for example, saving a file remotely. I'd be very convenient if I can use eshell or do something else at the same time.

I guess that people propose many solution. Anyway, I wonder if Emacs has any certain direction for improving multitasking support yet.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Probably the direction will be for more packages to use threads.

They currently don't run in parallel — they're just sugar over the existing cooperative multitasking model — but hopefully they'll get that ability in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Does Emacs have a global interpreter lock similar to Python?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

The interpreter is completely single-threaded, so there's nothing to have a lock over.