On Aug 19, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>>
>> I find the delays very annoying.
>>
>> Can this not be called asynchronously?
>
> No, this is used to set the VC state for a file, which is needed as  
> soon
> as a user is able to issue commands.


Then use a semaphore.

In most cases the user will not issue a VC command, but work with the  
buffer.
That would also take care of annoyingly slow commits in CVS and other  
operations over the network.

I'm sure people must have thought of this at some point. But just in  
case doing all these time-consuming VC operations synchronously is due  
to the code being older than async process calls, I wanted to bring  
this up.

Wouldn't it be easier and less error-prone to use more async process  
calls than to wait for Lisp-level multithreading -?