Re: multi-threaded Emacs

[Magnus Henoch]

Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> writes:

> Personally I don't think there is need to use a library that at the
> moment is usable only on an architecture, it will be a serious
> portability problem for Emacs (that probably after "Hello World" is the
> most portable program out there).
> All we need for a multi-threaded Emacs can be done quite easily with
> pthreads.

Or GNU pth, which I'm surprised that noone has mentioned.  It does
cooperative threading with a pthread-like interface, yielding at I/O
operations and some other syscalls.

http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/

Of course, whoever writes the code gets to choose the library.  Good
luck with your endeavour!  I look forward to the results.

Magnus