>From what the belowmentioned Web pages seem to imply, it seems
impossible to have an elisp program do some sort of "multithreading"
whatsoever; I mean the simultaneous execution of tasks (writing
simultaneously in two different buffers, for instance).

Is that so? IOW, you /always/ have to wait for a function to finish?


http://per.bothner.com/papers/Freenix00/Freenix00.html
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/10/21/2329254.shtml
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