Re: Concurrency via isolated process/thread

[Po Lu]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> Am I missing something, does the gap remain intact when the just move
> point? AFAIU, the gap only needs to move when we do edits.
>
> I was thinking about thread-local variables just to move around and read
> buffer. Asynchronous writing is probably a poor idea anyway - the very
> idea of a gap does not work well when we need to write in multiple
> far-away places in buffer.

Thread-local state is NOT cheap!  We should not jump at every
opportunity to add new thread-local state.