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

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Then my question wasn't really answered yet.

Ah, I now understand what you were asking.

The variable's global value is modified and thereafter made available to
all other threads.  If multiple threads perform coinciding alterations
to the same symbol's value, the machine bus reconciles the conflict by
selecting a single value.