Re: multi-threaded Emacs

[Paul R]

Stefan> Indeed. Further than that, we'd need more explicit
Stefan> synchronization primitives. We could probably start with
Stefan> a (atomically &rest BODY) which guarantees that BODY will be
Stefan> properly protected from other threads that it will appear to be
Stefan> executed atomically.

Isn't it what critical sections are for ? (critical &rest BODY) would
execute body with no thread switching. I think this feature is not
necessary with cooperative-only threading because a critical section is
any section that does not contain any 'yield' instruction.


-- 
  Paul