Re: Questions about throw-on-input

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 10:32:44 +0200
> Cc: Alexander Miller <alexanderm@web.de>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, 
> 	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, yyoncho <yyoncho@gmail.com>
> 
> > Your ideal world seems to be based on an editor design that is very
> > different from what Emacs is.  The absolute majority of objects which
> > an average Lisp program manipulates are globally visible -- buffers,
> > windows, frames, global variables, the obarray, etc., and doing that
> > in non-blocking ways is not really trivial.
> >
> 
> And that's what I'd call one of the biggest problems in current
> Emacs's design. Much of the development in programming practices over
> the last few decades has been moving away from global mutable state,
> in order to increase robustness and predictability, and also to make
> concurrency without subprocesses possible.

My point is that adding multithreading to Emacs will need rethinking
and redesigning many core features, so it is a large job.