Re: Questions about throw-on-input

[Arthur Miller]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Dont' know if it possible for Emacs and how underlaying "lisp
>> machine" is constructed. Maybe each thread could have it's own eval.
>> But then how would they communicate when they need, since Emacs
>> buffers often are used together in some way unlike webpages in a browser.
>
> That's the problem: in the current design of Emacs and Elisp, we can
> and do share data between buffers.
>
> In the web-browser, each "tab" is its own virtual-machine, with very
> little communication between them and very little sharing.
>
> In Emacs, on the contrary all the functions and the global data defined
> by the loaded packages are shared, and additionally to that some of the
> buffer-local data is also shared.
>
>
>         Stefan

Thank you for the clarification.