Re: Asynchronous backend interface

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Greg Stark <gsstark@MIT.EDU> writes:

> Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could check for new news while editting a
> buffer. Or Gnus was capable of querying more than one backend at the same
> time? Or if you could be reading one group while generating a particularly
> large summary buffer at the same time?

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> If you don't believe me that this would be possible check the
> archives for the two previous times i've proposed this, the first
> would be near the September Gnus code freeze, and the second
> sometime during Red Gnus development.

Oops.  I think Quassia Gnus just went into feature freeze.  :-)

> It wouldn't be useful for everyone all the time. If you have a very fast
> network connection your emacs might be unresponsive handling i/o. But if you
> have a handful of slow foreign servers it would be very useful to scan them
> while also getting all the quick stuff at the same time. If you have a slow
> network connection it would just be nice to be able to download large summary
> buffers without locking up your emacs while they download.

Yes, it would be nice, but it will be quite a bit of work to get it to
work ok.  It's something I can't do anytime soon.

(The code freeze thing was a joke, though.)

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