Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?

[Martin Stjernholm]

Kai Grossjohann <address@hidden> wrote:

> Somebody suggested to avoid this by putting big locks around
> everything and then to relax them.

That was me, I guess.

> I made the suggestion to "just" let the implementor of the new thread
> code worry about such things: if you start a new thread then you're
> responsible for letting it run code that doesn't access globals in
> problematic ways.

Would a thread like that would be used from the elisp level?