From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
Cc: 53877@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: bug#53877: 29.0.50; [PATCH] async Gnus/nnml
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:25:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6eya89b.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iltma8wj.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:11:56 -0800")
On 02/10/22 10:11 AM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> On 02/10/22 10:02 AM, Manuel Giraud wrote:
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>> Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr> writes:
>>>
>>>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Why can't you bind `nnmail-article-buffer' before calling the splitting
>>>>> function?
>>>>
>>>> I spoke too quickly. The idea was that with a temporay buffer I could
>>>> run multiple splitting in "parallel". But rebinding just *one* global
>>>> variable won't help much here.
>>>
>>> Are you sure? AFAIK this was Dick Chiang's approach to threading
>>> server updates: let-binding the value of `nntp-server-buffer' within
>>> the thread function. As far as I know it worked okay. The splitting
>>> function and code run within it will have a separate value of
>>> `nnmail-article-buffer'.
>>
>> I'm trying another approach: seek to the processes in the backend, don't
>> wait for them to end but instead attach sentinels for what's left to
>> do. Maybe it is not the best approach because Gnus seems to be heavily
>> stateful/serial.
>>
>> I'm not sure about binding in sentinels: do you think it would work as
>> binding in threads?
>
> Are you sure the original approach won't work? If you set
> `nnmail-article-buffer' locally within the thread function, it seems to
> work okay. Is this not workable:
>
> (defun test-threads-outer ()
> (dolist (label (list "one" "two" "three"))
> (make-thread (lambda () (test-threads-inner label)) label)))
>
> (defun test-threads-inner (label)
> (let ((nnmail-article-buffer (format "nnmail-incoming-%s" label)))
> (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create nnmail-article-buffer)
> (insert label))))
>
> That creates three separate buffers, named correctly, and holding the
> correct text.
Though in this simple example, the copies of the inner function are
actually still being executed consecutively, so maybe this doesn't prove
anything? I don't have much faith in my reasoning about threads.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-10 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-08 14:22 bug#53877: 29.0.50; [PATCH] async Gnus/nnml Manuel Giraud
2022-02-08 20:33 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-02-09 9:00 ` Robert Pluim
2022-02-09 8:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-09 9:42 ` Manuel Giraud
2022-02-09 9:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-09 10:39 ` Manuel Giraud
2022-02-09 10:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-09 10:47 ` Manuel Giraud
2022-02-09 10:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-09 12:30 ` Manuel Giraud
2022-02-09 16:35 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-02-10 9:02 ` Manuel Giraud
2022-02-10 18:11 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-02-10 18:25 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2022-02-10 20:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-10 20:37 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-02-11 10:57 ` Manuel Giraud
2022-02-11 17:53 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-02-09 8:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-09 9:52 ` Manuel Giraud
2022-02-09 20:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87a6eya89b.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net \
--to=eric@ericabrahamsen.net \
--cc=53877@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=larsi@gnus.org \
--cc=manuel@ledu-giraud.fr \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).