From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: switch to another window while gnus is busy
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:00:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877i66wq0s.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdtq1wii.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:56:05 +0800")
jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
Hi!
> Why must gnus dominate the whole emacs? Why can't I switch to another
> window while gnus is busy, like I can with emacs-w3m?
Cause emacs-w3m uses an external process (w3m) and therefore gains some
sort of parallelism while Gnus does does the processing in emacs lisp
which has no parellelism (at least currently).
Hope that helps,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-11 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-11 16:56 jidanni
2008-12-11 17:02 ` David Engster
2008-12-11 18:00 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2008-12-11 18:20 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-12 1:34 ` nnrss slow [was: switch to another window while gnus is busy] jidanni
2008-12-12 21:45 ` nnrss slow Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-13 9:44 ` Steinar Bang
2008-12-15 4:20 ` jidanni
2008-12-16 17:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-16 17:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-15 4:06 ` jidanni
2008-12-12 7:40 ` switch to another window while gnus is busy, nnmaildir slow startup Justus-bulk
2008-12-12 21:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=877i66wq0s.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de \
--to=tassilo@member.fsf.org \
--cc=ding@gnus.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).