[linux-elitists] email elitims

[Ben Finney]

Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> writes:

> Emacs still doesn't do multithreading though, right? 

Real elitists demand programs that subdivide their work with plain
processes and narrowly-specified IPC. Processes are well-understood, and
cheap on operating systems that matter. Threads are an evil hack for
OSes that don't implement processes well.

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Ben Finney