Re: Could each Emacs frame utilize a thread?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Simon Josefsson <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:15:34 +0100
> 
> using idle-timers is simply not
> sufficient -- they are only useful if what you try to do is not CPU
> bound.  Most of Gnus is.  And then you freeze Emacs anyway.

The usual way of battling this with idle timer method is to do the
CPU-bound computation in small chunks.  And that's where convenience
comes into play: subdividing code into chunks requires all kinds of
variables in which you save the state of the computation, so you could
restart it later.