Re: Concurrency via isolated process/thread

[Po Lu]

<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

> The tendency, though, seems to be to avoid interlocking as much as possible
> and use "transactional" data structures [1]. Which is an order of magnitude
> more "interesting" :-)

They are unfortunately not relevant to Emacs, since their use pertains
to programs that were designed to run in multiple processor environments
almost from the very start.  On the other hand, Unix is a large and
ancient program with vast amounts of global state, that was still
modified to run in SMP environments, making its development experiences
directly relevant to Emacs.