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From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
Subject: Re: Greg's Perennial Plea For an Asynchronous Backend Interface
Date: 04 Jan 2001 11:40:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <why9wrvbw7.fsf@viffer.computas.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878zot5f28.fsf@localhost.freelotto.com>

>>>>> Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>:

> All you need is an interface between Gnus and the backends that
> allows Gnus to pass a callback with a closure to the backend when an
> asynchronous call is permitted. And of course you want to do this in
> a backwards compatible way, so if the backend doesn't implement the
> asynchronous call Gnus just calls the normal backend function.

[snip!]
> Doing it properly requires the new interface between backends and
> Gnus. And it require Gnus be aware of when it's using the
> asynchronous interface to avoid conflicts. But it would be much more
> powerful than my kludge.

Is this basically the same thing that nnimap needs for its performance 
enhancements?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-04 10:40 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 [this message]
2001-01-05 10:30   ` Simon Josefsson
2001-01-05 16:41     ` Steinar Bang

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