Re: Concurrency via isolated process/thread

[Ihor Radchenko]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

>> I imagine that only a single, main Emacs process will truly own the
>> obarray.
>>
>> The child async Emacs process will (1) partially have its own obarray
>> for lexical bindings; (2) query the parent process when there is a need
>> to read/write the shared obarray.  The query will be processed by the
>> parent process synchronously, so the situation you described will be
>> impossible.
>
> The obarray contains symbols, not their values.  So I don't understand
> what you refer to by a separate obarray for lexical bindings.

I imagine that the child Emacs will have a very limited obarray.
If a symbol is not found in that process-local obarray, a query to
parent Emacs process will be sent to retrieve the symbol slot values.

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