Re: Concurrency via isolated process/thread

[Po Lu]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> Emm. I meant memory allocation. AFAIK, just like GC allocating heap
> cannot be asynchronous.

The garbage collector and object allocation can be interlocked, as with
everything else...

> This too, although isn't is already solved by mutexes?

... which you proceed to admit here, and is the crux of the problem.
Getting rid of the Lisp interpreter state that is still not thread-local
(BLV redirects come to mind) is only a minor challenge, compared to the
painstaking and careful work that will be required to interlock access
to the rest of the global state and objects like buffers.