Re: multi-threaded Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Each thread should have its own local bindings.  To do this
>> requires swapping bindings in and out of the specpdls
>> when switching threads.  It is not hard.
>       Currently my guess is that generalizing the existing
>     buffer-local/frame-local/terminal-local machinery to include
>     thread-local is going to work well, with fairly limited changes.
> That seems like a misunderstanding.

No, it's not a misunderstanding.  I'm just suggesting a different
implementation technique.

> What I am talking about does not involve adding another kind of
> binding.  It is a matter of correctly implementing the existing kinds
> of binding in the context of multiple threads.

Indeed, it is, and there several alternatives.


        Stefan