From: Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Funny-looking code in imap.el
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:34:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d6gdse0a.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wuelsel6.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (Gaute B. Strokkenes's message of "Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:21:57 +0100")
On 14 jul 2003, gs234@cam.ac.uk wrote:
>> Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>> Perhaps changing the a-p-o call to (accept-process-output process
>> 0.1) would speed things up too.
>
> Perhaps, though I doubt it. If I understand it correctly, the time
> argument to a-p-o is just a timeout; it will return as soon as it
> gets some output from the process or when the timeout expires,
> whichever comes first. I suspect it would work just as well to use
> a really big value here; the only reason to have a timeout at all
> seems to be to avoid busy-looping.
I changed the timeout in the a-p-o call to 666, with no apparent
slowdown or other ill effects.
--
Big Gaute http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~gs234/
Life is a POPULARITY CONTEST! I'm REFRESHINGLY CANDID!!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-14 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-14 2:05 Gaute B Strokkenes
2003-07-14 7:45 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-07-14 8:21 ` Gaute B Strokkenes
2003-07-14 8:34 ` Gaute B Strokkenes [this message]
2003-07-14 12:48 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-07-14 12:43 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-07-14 13:08 ` Simon Josefsson
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