Re: Some experience with the igc branch

[Stefan Kangas]

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:

> MPS is concurrent.
>
> One can tell MPS that one has a certain amount of time to spare, so it
> can do work then, which I think runs in the main thread. I do that when
> Emacs thinks it's idle.

Apologies if this is a naive question, but:

What do we gain from using the main thread for this, instead of always
letting it run in a separate thread?