Re: Funny-looking code in imap.el

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk>]

On 14 jul 2003, jas@extundo.com wrote:

> Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
> Is it the sit-for that delay things?

Yes, that seems to be a big part of it.  Note that I haven't found a
good way to test the speed "scientifically"; this is based purely on
my eyeballing things.

> Try removing it.

That seems to work fine.  Another thing that works is to hit some
harmless key, like `s', right after `g'.  This works because sif-for
will not actually sit if there is pending input.

> 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.

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