Re: multi-threaded Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

Stefan> Indeed. Further than that, we'd need more explicit
Stefan> synchronization primitives. We could probably start with
Stefan> a (atomically &rest BODY) which guarantees that BODY will be
Stefan> properly protected from other threads that it will appear to be
Stefan> executed atomically.

> Isn't it what critical sections are for ? (critical &rest BODY) would
> execute body with no thread switching. I think this feature is not
> necessary with cooperative-only threading because a critical section is
> any section that does not contain any 'yield' instruction.

We're talking about non-cooperative scenarios (e.g. yield in QUIT).


        Stefan