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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 
> > Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
> > 
> > > I think work is going on with a Guile implementation of Emacs (where
> > > you would get multithreading for free, I gather)
> > 
> > You gather -- from what?
> 
> Uh, isn't Guile multi-threaded or doesn't it support multithreading?

See Didier's response.  Even if Guile were multi-threaded, you
wouldn't get anything "for free".  You still have to design a sane
interface and port the applications to use that interface, and doing
that is IMHO harder than anything else.