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Subject: Re: Experiment with threads - no concurrency?
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> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 18:35:16 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Well it woudl be probably misunderstanding on my part, since I thought that
> threads are just a wrapper on pthreads

The are indeed wrappers of pthreads, but we don't use the pthreads
scheduler.

> This also leaves me with a question: what is practical use for Emacs threads? Is
> there any internal code that uses threads so I can look at a practical example?

You can start by looking at the tests for the thread capabilities.