Subject: Re: bug#38807: [Feature request]: Support lisp workers like web workers.

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:23:42 +0200

> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 13:27:44 +0800
> From: HaiJun Zhang <[email-masked]>
> 
> I think the web worker is a good design for GUI applications such as web browser. The workers do heavy
> work and provide the results to the UI thread. The UI thread only displays the result and responds to user
> input events which makes good user responsiveness. 
> 
> The web workers run in other context. They can’t access data in the UI thread. They can only communicate
> with the UI thread by calling some limited APIs.

We have threads in Emacs, so you could start by using them, no?