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Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?
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Kai Grossjohann |
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Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? |
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Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:39:56 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) |
Vinicius Jose Latorre <address@hidden> writes:
> I also don't know a lot about threads, but CHILL (old) language also has a
> mechanism of mutual exclusion. So, one could define a thread, other defines
> another thread, if both of them need to share some resource (variables) they
> define a region of mutual exclusion where the resources (variables) can be
> accessed only by procedure calling.
I think the point of the post I followed up to was that lots of code
already accesses global (and hence, potentially shared) variables
WITHOUT defining a region of mutual exclusion.
Kai
Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2003/11/17
Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?, John Wiegley, 2003/11/18