From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sv: Emacs HTTP libraries [was: Re: How to contribute new package to GNU ELPA?] Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:39:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83sg4ckbfw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r1jxd3d8.fsf@gnu.org> <8e549f23-db75-2ef1-4399-0fb52e5efa6f@gnu.org> <87zgykn5qc.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32260"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: arthur.miller@live.com, raman@google.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, db48x@db48x.net, darnir@gnu.org, adam@alphapapa.net, mardani29@yahoo.es, jemarch@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 30 15:40:15 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lREbP-0008Fe-3U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 15:40:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50990 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lREbO-0007RK-4S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:40:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44558) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lREag-00071l-Fg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:39:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37089) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lREaf-0003JB-7t; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:39:29 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1800 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lREaW-00075z-OX; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:39:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87zgykn5qc.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 30 Mar 2021 15:14:35 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:267169 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 15:14:35 +0200 > Cc: Arthur Miller , > "emacs-devel@gnu.org" , Daniel Brooks , > Darshit Shah , Adam Porter , > "T.V Raman" , "Jose E. Marchesi" > > The other issue is that Emacs has a generally slow process interface due > to the way it's geared towards inputting artefacts from the file > systems, with all that entails for coding systems etc -- which is 100% > irrelevant for the networking protocols that are dominant today, none of > which are character oriented, but only deal with streams of octets. We have the ability not to attempt decoding at all, don't we? So why is that still a problem?