Re: Elisp containers

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> If someone feels like they have too much time on their hands, I think
> a great feature to develop would be Elisp containers.
>
> This would be like running Elisp in a separate process, except that it's
> not a separate process, so communication between two containers can be
> very efficient (e.g. you can send a buffer from one container to the
> other as efficiently as you can send an integer).
>
> Potential applications:
> - true concurrency
> - safely running arbitrary Elisp code (e.g. bug#32495)
> - discover what a package defines without actually defining those things
>   (i.e. load the package into a container, then look at what got
>   defined and throw away the container).

I'm curious: could this be used to implement namespaces, as well?