Re: Very interesting analysis of "the state of Emacs"

[Stefan Monnier]

>     The way I see it, multithreading within a buffer is a problem we can
>     ignore for the next 20 years.

> I am not sure of that.  In multi-terminal use it is very likely that
> more than one terminal will be operating in the same buffer.

Good point.  But I don't think it's a problem either: what I meant by
"multithreading within a single buffer" is that we'd have a lock per
buffer.  Whenever lisp code enters a buffer, we'd acquire the lock.
I.e. just because the user is looking at a buffer doesn't mean some
other user (with its own thread) elsewhere can't look at that
buffer either.  Just that their respective actions will be serialized by
the buffer's lock.


        Stefan