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Re: Concurrency, again


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Concurrency, again
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:10:40 +0300

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:43:14 -0400
> 
>   > > Are such bugs why the "concurrency" branch is not ready?
> 
>   > We don't really know, because the branch was never seriously used.
> 
> We could do something about that.  Can we modify them so that
> you need to set a variable or you get the current default
> behavior?  Then it could be merged in, and people could try it.
> 
>   > That's what the branch does: if a Lisp program doesn't create any
>   > threads, it will run normally, as in today's Emacs, using a single
>   > main thread.
> 
> Maybe the flag (or flags) could control whether these applications
> create threads.

That could probably be done, but it still needs someone motivated
enough to work on that.  Volunteers are welcome.



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