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

[Kai Grossjohann]

Martin Stjernholm <address@hidden> writes:

> Kai Grossjohann <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Somebody suggested to avoid this by putting big locks around
>> everything and then to relax them.
>
> That was me, I guess.

Yes.  Sorry for forgetting your name, and I couldn't find the right
post in this huge thread.

>> I made the suggestion to "just" let the implementor of the new thread
>> code worry about such things: if you start a new thread then you're
>> responsible for letting it run code that doesn't access globals in
>> problematic ways.
>
> Would a thread like that would be used from the elisp level?

That was my idea.

Kai