From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30644 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Daniel Pittman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: a faster Gnus? Date: 3 May 2000 21:15:14 +1000 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87itwvopfh.fsf@inanna.danann.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167151 9564 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:25:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:25:51 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 683D1D0522 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 22:48:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAB14712; Wed, 3 May 2000 21:48:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 03 May 2000 21:47:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA16030 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 21:47:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from fw01.osa.com.au (fw01.osa.com.au [203.6.130.130]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D916D0523 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 22:46:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 9254 invoked by uid 0); 4 May 2000 02:45:54 -0000 Original-Received: (ofmipd 172.16.33.89); 4 May 2000 02:45:32 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13802 invoked by uid 0); 4 May 2000 02:45:54 -0000 Original-Received: from inanna.osa.com.au (HELO inanna.danann.net) (172.16.33.101) by excalibur.osa.com.au with SMTP; 4 May 2000 02:45:54 -0000 Original-Received: by inanna.danann.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DEED328006; Wed, 3 May 2000 21:15:14 +1000 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Roman Belenov's message of "03 May 2000 13:47:03 +0400" X-Homepage: http://danann.net/ X-spies: Kenneth Starr Area 51 South Africa Nazi Bosnia KGB Cocaine jihad Waco, Texas CIA Uzi Ft. Bragg Ft. Meade New World Order quiche Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0806 (Gnus v5.8.6) XEmacs/21.2 (Kastor & Polydeukes) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30644 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30644 On 03 May 2000, Roman Belenov wrote: > Jonas Steverud writes: > >> Brian May 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 -- Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of our best people. -- George Ade