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    > We're talking about a synchronous subprocess, which means that Emacs
    > waits for it to finish.

    Hmmm... some imaginary demon keeps shouting "multithreading!" in my ear,
    but I have no idea whether that's even remotely feasible.

Emacs already supports asynchronous subprocesses, but this is a
synchronous one, which is a different feature.