Re: Concurrency via isolated process/thread

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Emacs's equivalent is the main thread, which is the only thread that can
>> safely call redisplay.
>
> Which makes it impossible to display indications that are unrelated to
> buffer text displayed in some window.  We use the "normal"
> buffer/window/frame/redisplay machinery for showing such indications
> (a good example is progress report), but the downsides of this are:

Progress report and other indications that do not request user output do
make more sense if they are converted to async calls. For example,
`make-progress-reporter' might create a cooperative thread (that will be
able to trigger redisplay) and `progress-reporter-update' can signal to
that thread to display the updated the progress.

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