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Re: Dynamic loading progress


From: Stephen Leake
Subject: Re: Dynamic loading progress
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:48:34 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (windows-nt)

Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> writes:

> A runtime describes Emacs as a whole. It lives forever and has no thread
> affinity. An environment represents a specific stack activation of an
> Emacs module function. It has thread affinity. Because environments have
> thread affinity, we can very cheaply store local references, error
> context, and whatever else we want in them. 

Please add this to comments in the API, so we don't forget.

or add a module_design.texi, for this and similar design info.

-- 
-- Stephe



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