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Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:

> It might be tricky but basically what gnus needs is an option to provide to
> the backend that would be a closure to call when the operation was finished.
> Then the backend could schedule all its work and return immediately. Taking
> care of the processing of data in callbacks, calling the closure when it's
> finished. 

Note that this is not quite sufficient for, eg, mail splitting.  Here,
you get a large ~/Mail/Incoming file and there is no natural division
between chunks of work, like in process filters, so what it comes down
to is that you have to do that yourself.

And that's all I had been trying to say.  Maybe `very hard' was an
exaggeration, but, well...

kai
-- 
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