Re: Concurrency in Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

> I don't know if it was mentioned in previous posts but the support for
> threads in the C implementation of Emacs can be a lot easier with
> coccinelle[1].
> Coccinelle is a tool that generates diff files for an entire source
> tree based a semantic rules. Think of it as a _really smart_ sed with
> operators and constructs for C. It's already used in the linux kernel
> so it's production ready.

BTW, it might also be neat to try and get rid of the GCPRO stuff by
replacing it with a coccinelle "semantic patch".


        Stefan