Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?

[Kai Grossjohann]

Vinicius Jose Latorre <address@hidden> writes:

> I also don't know a lot about threads, but CHILL (old) language also has a
> mechanism of mutual exclusion.  So, one could define a thread, other defines
> another thread, if both of them need to share some resource (variables) they
> define a region of mutual exclusion where the resources (variables) can be
> accessed only by procedure calling.

I think the point of the post I followed up to was that lots of code
already accesses global (and hence, potentially shared) variables
WITHOUT defining a region of mutual exclusion.

Kai