Getting Started with Emacs 24

Additional note, the traditional starter kit configuration files, now in version 2 (tailored for emacs 24)<p><a href="https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit</a>

Does anyone know the status of multithreading and concurrency in Emacs 24? As far as I can tell, multithreading didn't make it in. Why not?