Re: What's the problem? (Was: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?)

[Stefan Monnier]

> I haven't yet seen any response to those constructive contributions to
> this discussion that motivates they would be infeasible or
> meaningless. I truly believe I have proposed a viable solution, but
> the lack of comment on it is disappointing.

It's probably because most people just agree with the proposition
but don't care about implementing it.  At least that's my position.

> I'm not at all certain of that; cpu optimizations can slant these
> things in unexpected directions. It wouldn't surprise me if an extra
> indirection on the stack is faster than a global variable due to
> better memory locality.

That's always a possibility indeed.


        Stefan