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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? |
| Date: | 02 Dec 2003 12:27:22 -0500 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
>> What is it about Emacs that makes it worth a major rewrite in order
>> to make it multithreaded?
> Gnus.
Wouldn't Gnus be happy enough with cooperative multithreading ?
I keep thinking that we should provide a way to specify background tasks
that we can run while idle. It can already be done in elisp, but it's
rather painful.
Stefan
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