From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
Subject: Re: Greg's Perennial Plea For an Asynchronous Backend Interface
Date: 05 Jan 2001 17:41:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <why9wqj6is.fsf@viffer.computas.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iluhf3es33v.fsf@barbar.josefsson.org>
>>>>> Simon Josefsson <sj@extundo.com>:
> Sort of, primarily nnimap need a more fine-grained backend interface
> to enable Gnus to take advantage of IMAP features, and that would
> speed things up considerably.
> An asynchronous backend interface would probably make things "feel"
> fast enough, though, because it wouldn't lock up emacs while the
> backends "thinks".
> If the more fine-grained backend interface happen (which is lots of
> work, I think), it might as well be asynchronous too.
I think it would be well worth the work. I'm using Gnus agent with
nnimap, mainly because using it online is too slow.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-05 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-03 6:23 Greg Stark
2001-01-03 15:55 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-01-04 1:26 ` Lloyd Zusman
2001-01-04 10:40 ` Steinar Bang
2001-01-05 10:30 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-01-05 16:41 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
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