Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 05 Dec 2003, address@hidden wrote:

> If you mean lightweight threads in the sense of a general OS
> development trend to make OS threading more of a lightweight
> operation, then its OS specific and independent of emacs.

I have always understood lightweight threads to be those that share
memory space, and heavyweight threads to be those that have a separate
memory space (data, stack, and heap) and are usually separate
processes.  I believe the current Emacs process sentinels allow
heavyweight threading.

Ted