Re: pgnus commandeers emacs to check mail

DV> Last time I checked, it wasn't, but this might have DV> changed. However, getting multithreading "for free" is a bit DV> optimistic. You get multithreading at the langage level, DV> yes. But that's probably not the most difficult thing to DV> achieve. The major part of the work is properly designing the DV> way you'll use multithreading: how many threads ? To do what ? DV> Threads for user commands ? and so on, with all the non DV> obvious problems it brings, like synchronisation, mutual DV> exclusion, resources protection etc. There's also a libgthread that's part of glib. If [x]emacs were to be based on glib/gtk, "free" threading could become available. FAQ: http://www.serpentine.com/~bos/threads-faq/ is also quite useful.