Re: Emacs design and architecture. How about copy-on-write?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I'm not bothered by slowness, I'm much more bothered by the magnitude
> of the changes this will incur.  I don't even know how to identify all
> the places which would need such changes.

I _hope_ that it will be enough to acquire global lock once redisplay or
user input is requested.

If my optimism does not hold, a safe approach that can be employed is to
mark the functions that are thread-safe explicitly and acquire global
lock by default.

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