Re: a faster Gnus?

["Daniel Pittman" <daniel@danann.net>]

On 03 May 2000, Roman Belenov <roman@nstl.nnov.ru> wrote:

> Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:
> 
>> Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au> writes:
>> 
>> [...]
>> > but I can't do anything with xemacs until it has finished).
>> 
>> That is becourse Emacs is not multi-threaded and that won't happen
>> since it is more work for both developers of Emacs and of elisp
>> packages then what it's worth. (load-library "std-disc")
> 
> W3 seems to circumvent it somehow since it can download pages
> asynchronously.

That's done by using process filters on the network connections, and the
like, as well as breaking the work down into manageable chunks along the
way.

It's a decidedly non-trivial exercise to do, however.

        Daniel

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