Re: multi-threaded Emacs

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Richard M Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Actually, yielding in QUIT will take a lot of work.  It's definitely not
>     "cooperative" seen from Elisp's point of view (where QUIT can be run
>     implicitly all over the place).
>
> I am surprised.  Perhaps you're right, but why do you think so?
> Anywhere that calls QUIT is a place where it is safe for an error to happen,
> so why not a thread switch?

The cooperative threads approach moves to Elisp packages more work as
they will have explicitly to yield control but it simplifies a lot the C
code.
I already started to change my code to allow only the execution of a
thread at a time and add a `yield' primitive.

Giuseppe