Re: Threads in emacs implementation

[Miles Bader]

On 6/7/05, Denis Bueno <address@hidden> wrote:
> Having said that, my question is, has thought been put into
> multithreading parts of Emacs?

Yes.  It's very hard, because Emacs has lots and lots of global state
and lots and lots of code that doesn't expect to deal with threading
issues.  Writing multi-threaded code from scratch isn't all that hard,
but making an existing massive code-base thread-safe is a very
different thing.

A search of the mailing list archives for emacs-devel should turn up
something I think.

-Miles
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