Re: advice needed for multi-threading patch

[Ken Raeburn]

On Sep 28, 2009, at 23:33, Tom Tromey wrote:
> It is worth noting that we don't have to solve all the problems up
> front.  Since threading is a new feature, I think it is ok to say that
> code running in a "secondary" thread might have to follow some special
> rules, or that some things (e.g., let-binding something then  
> redisplay)
> may only work in the "main" thread.  These restrictions could then  
> maybe
> be lifted later.

True.  And as long as it's not yet folded into an Emacs release, we  
can also alter behavior, impose new restrictions, etc., as it gets  
exercised and we learn better about compatibility issues we might've  
overlooked.

Ken