From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4566 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mark W. Eichin" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Getting articles asynchronously..... Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 23:53:52 -0500 Message-ID: <199512280453.XAA00789@perdiem.cygnus.com> References: <199512261418.JAA17643@delphi.ccs.neu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145296 30097 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:21:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:21:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA07390 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 21:25:35 -0800 Original-Received: from cygnus.com (cygnus.com [140.174.1.1]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 05:55:14 +0100 Original-Received: from tweedledumb.cygnus.com (tweedledumb.cygnus.com [192.80.44.1]) by cygnus.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA12305; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 20:55:07 -0800 Original-Received: by tweedledumb.cygnus.com (4.1/4.7) id AA24638; Wed, 27 Dec 95 23:55:05 EST Original-Received: by perdiem.cygnus.com (8.6.12/4.7) id XAA00789; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 23:53:52 -0500 Original-To: ratinox@ccs.neu.edu In-Reply-To: <199512261418.JAA17643@delphi.ccs.neu.edu> (message from Stainless Steel Rat on Tue, 26 Dec 1995 09:18:28 -0500) Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4566 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4566 > That would require a multithreaded Emacs kernel, something that a) does > not exist and, b) likely won't exist for quite some time. Actually, I've heard that some progress has been made integrating pthreads into guile, and an emacs that uses guile (either with or instead of elisp) is a likely next step, so "quite some time" may be a matter of months... _Mark_ Cygnus Support, Eastern USA