Re: Concurrency, again

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philipp Stephani <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:22:42 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> We still have tons of global mutable state, e.g. the buffer list. Traditional 
> OS-level multithreading is impossible
> with that amount of global state.

But we are not doing OS-level multithreading on the concurrency branch.

> On the other hand, non-parallel concurrency doesn't care about global state 
> (which can just be swapped out)
> at all.

Which is what we do.