From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53427 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gaute B Strokkenes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Funny-looking code in imap.el Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:34:29 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87d6gdse0a.fsf@cam.ac.uk> References: <87znjhsw0d.fsf@cam.ac.uk> <87wuelsel6.fsf@cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1058171702 15869 80.91.224.249 (14 Jul 2003 08:35:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 08:35:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1971@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jul 14 10:35:00 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19bynU-00047S-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:35:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19byoD-0005st-00; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 03:35:45 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19byo6-0005sn-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 03:35:38 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 23820 invoked by alias); 14 Jul 2003 08:35:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23815 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2003 08:35:37 -0000 Original-Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (62.253.162.43) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 14 Jul 2003 08:35:37 -0000 Original-Received: from belldandy ([81.100.93.186]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP id <20030714083536.GSCC2652.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@belldandy> for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:35:36 +0100 Original-Received: from gs234 by belldandy with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19bymz-0003Pj-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:34:29 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@gnus.org Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAG1BMVEWWWBTly7aGMwb+/vz9 +ffIilb///+yaCxNCwHGVC3gAAACU0lEQVR4nF2TQWvjMBBGVUGwj3WxaY/aAWNfi0zuwZPuHp0Q ob079OwYjHrsChb0s3dGctJ0ddTzm9F8lsR7WiNiWWL/flviul9Uh0NR4vY/gJUxJjOEtt/AubBy UsotRfH2DbxWE0hom3w5XJUEKis9hACt2hR4B86VDOtqTNHfgeEGvLiUN7Ddze26Dx6y1CUa+ygo NwFQm0N/BeMzCZAtNIoQrd9EhcH5mWpnztB8ZpJBlH23jaAbuE4EhZ2Bam0TeJ0DRMCKVP6CegWk q4z2TVFUx0946FOPcSe9ELE3rSHAj15rBuddS0C4BGyAutfpVAQkKdZOQiwMMIHxlUDrgeej5Ns7 I/ccSWNBLda1XwYBEG1Qswy1yXJf879nA4cjkNI0H+FzoUyuRodPA5eqZwFONG34i30ccOxeKFUy flNe1szqsgLdvXwKCj6zjTXODHV9M46gZPCLlYKCGTYO8S0aOAvJzRfD0w+1XcGIsxLUw/sYl5sM 9n0yjkoSUDOByrijwRRiAq13NhqLJYB3ACazrgN2bIwanyJQKXhHAJPRPQruEaCJP2Shy4DJ2As+ FQjJZH7AZIy6w0pQiiRYAh8nTEZHYDfRqSDeB5OXq4EEcAC4NocvoBl4+n1cyl54nyLRNA3iIwRP wNGFOK1g1Gz8jNfaCjdtqJLm2LXuqMc+50cDIJQpr6X0OHa4X58ULAw03QbRd7GUiG/K04mj0bNB xQhwJkEsJiZ1Bbgb6CnF79cBE+jwF91qniOCP3fghUFKxOShjIATw/wOfIQTg39LpFHtxhlKywAA AABJRU5ErkJggg== In-Reply-To: <87wuelsel6.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (Gaute B. Strokkenes's message of "Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:21:57 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53427 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53427 On 14 jul 2003, gs234@cam.ac.uk wrote: >> Gaute B Strokkenes 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!!