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Is the lack of multithreading support in emacs a dealbreaker for you? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by saarin@alien.top to c/emacs
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[–] field_thought_slight@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It's a dealbreaker for certain applications (e.g., window management). It's not a dealbreaker for Emacs as a whole.

Actually, to be clear: most of the pain is with blocking I/O. But Emacs does have support for asynchronous I/O. The problem is that there is too much code that uses blocking I/O rather than asynchronous I/O.