Re: multi-threaded Emacs

[Miles Bader]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
> The promise of threads isn't just that it can fix these, but that it
> opens Emacs to new applications without hurting usability.  Maybe
> there are other ways to accomplish the same thing, though.

I think most of these things _could_ be done by judicious use of process
filters etc... but it's a big pain, maybe requiring completely
re-designing various parts of gnus.  My hope is that with cooperative
threading, the changes required would be far smaller, maybe even just
sticking in calls to (yield) at strategic locations.

-miles

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