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[Emacs-diffs] test-concurrency 128cacd 8/8: Add a NEWS entry.


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: [Emacs-diffs] test-concurrency 128cacd 8/8: Add a NEWS entry.
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 17:13:48 +0000 (UTC)

branch: test-concurrency
commit 128cacda1c79983f0b64773afc029bc757cfb7b8
Author: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>

    Add a NEWS entry.
---
 etc/NEWS |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index f7565b0..256edde 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -74,6 +74,19 @@ for '--daemon'.
 * Changes in Emacs 26.1
 
 +++
+** Emacs now provides a limited form of concurrency with Lisp threads.
+Concurrency in Emacs Lisp is "mostly cooperative", meaning that
+Emacs will only switch execution between threads at well-defined
+times: when Emacs waits for input, during blocking operations related
+to threads (such as mutex locking), or when the current thread
+explicitly yields.  Global variables are shared among all threads, but
+a 'let' binding is thread-local.  Each thread also has its own current
+buffer and its own match data.
+
+See the chapter "Threads" in the ELisp manual for full documentation
+of these facilities.
+
++++
 ** The new function 'file-name-case-insensitive-p' tests whether a
 given file is on a case-insensitive filesystem.
 



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