Subject: Re: bug#64423: 29.0.92; save-interprogram-paste-before-kill doesn't prevent streaming large selections

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2023 05:29:56 +0300

> From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2023 08:30:12 +0800
> 
> IIRC idle timers used to be implemented in Lisp, with an asynchronous
> process sending output whenever a timer expired :-)

No, _all_ timers were implemented like that at the beginning, before
they were rewritten based on the Emacs main loop.