Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?

[Martin Stjernholm]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> And just version of the buffer would it autosave when I was allowed to
> edit the file _while_ it was saving it?

Does it matter? Buffer changes aren't transaction based anyway. For
recovery purposes, it'd be enough if a block of a suitable size, say
256 kb or so, was copied from the buffer to be written asynchronously,
and a marker is used keep track of the position for the next block.