On 6/6/05, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/7/05, Denis Bueno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
I tried that, but, searching for 'thread' in a huge database of mailing list 'threads' is not as useful as one might think. =] Is there one conversation in particular you are thinking of? -Denis _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
