Re: Concurrency via isolated process/thread

[Ihor Radchenko]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> 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.

I see.
I still think that adding PT, BEGV, and ZV makes sense (even for current
cooperative threads; I have been trying to write something using these
some time ago, and having to constantly switch buffer and set point was
a big annoyance).

As for global C variable bindings, may we get rid of them?

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