From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus' speed
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:19:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38wi7utrq.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tz0v7362.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed\, 29 Jul 2009 13\:30\:13 -0500")
>>>>> "Ted" == Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
Ted> But there's a bigger problem: Gnus is by design synchronous. You
Ted> enter a group, then wait for the summary buffer to be built. Gnus
Ted> doesn't have the concept of "enter a buffer and let the articles
Ted> come in asynchronously" and I doubt it's possible without some
Ted> multithreading support in Emacs Lisp, which has been discussed many
Ted> times but is probably far in the future (at least a year, judging
Ted> by threads in emacs-devel). Gnus blocks on many other operations
Ted> too.
Do you mean, this can't be done without threads because it means too
much rewriting of Gnus?
It seems to me that in theory Gnus could work asynchronously by doing
work in process filters.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-29 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-28 18:34 Daniel Clemente
2009-07-28 21:03 ` Leo
2009-07-29 8:03 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-07-29 8:44 ` David Engster
2009-07-29 11:03 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2009-07-29 11:59 ` David Engster
2009-07-29 12:26 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2009-07-29 12:44 ` David Engster
2009-07-29 18:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-29 20:19 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2009-07-30 6:03 ` Daniel Pittman
2009-07-31 6:30 ` Bill White
2009-07-29 18:46 ` Reiner Steib
2009-08-15 1:07 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-15 1:50 ` Daniel Pittman
2009-07-29 18:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-29 9:47 ` Leo
2009-07-29 18:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-30 5:58 ` Daniel Pittman
2009-07-30 13:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-31 5:06 ` Daniel Pittman
2009-08-02 14:20 ` Steinar Bang
2009-08-03 14:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-30 5:59 ` Daniel Pittman
2009-07-29 7:07 ` CHENG Gao
2009-07-29 18:20 ` nnrss through Google Reader (was: Gnus' speed) Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-31 13:44 ` nnrss through Google Reader Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-30 0:38 ` Gnus' speed Kevin Ryde
2009-07-29 18:55 ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-30 0:29 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-07-30 7:41 ` Adam Sjøgren
2009-08-04 1:10 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-08-15 1:11 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-15 8:28 ` Steinar Bang
2009-08-16 3:50 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-04 17:48 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-08-04 17:46 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-08-05 5:52 ` Steinar Bang
2009-08-05 5:55 ` Steinar Bang
2009-08-05 8:20 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-08-05 15:10 ` Steinar Bang
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