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    >> For instance, if the display-engine could be separated from the
    >> lisp-engine parts, then perhaps a mini-scheduler could fork off
    >> lisp-engines as needed (or requested) to process complicated
    >> things.

Nowadays redisplay calls Lisp code, so that would not be a simple approach
to carry out.