Re: Shrinking the C core

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:03:00 +0200
> 
> I think the biggest problem with uncooperative multi-threading in Emacs
> is that Emacs has so much global state.  As a consequence, it's unsafe
> to let two threads use anything in the C code in parallel.

Indeed, that's the main problem.  Just adding threads to Lisp is easy.

> Maybe one could think of using some Python-like GIL, but that's kind
> of pointless, isn't it?

We already have that with the Lisp threads that we have in Emacs.