From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: hidden buffers for async Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:18:02 -0400 Message-ID: <87hdg37aza.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <6dbd4d0005060619227dd41364@mail.gmail.com> <87vf4oaft8.fsf@zemdatav.stor.no-ip.org> <87vf4oaao5.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <87ll5ka5j7.fsf@zemdatav.stor.no-ip.org> <87is0oa35h.fsf_-_@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <874qc4tzbo.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118596604 22764 80.91.229.2 (12 Jun 2005 17:16:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:16:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 12 19:16:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhW4H-0002G7-Nq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 19:16:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhW8u-0002Kk-DW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DhW7q-0001pE-As for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:20:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DhW7k-0001nb-Jk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:19:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhW7k-0001mK-CB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:19:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.110] (helo=tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DhW6r-00015V-2o; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([70.48.82.205]) by tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050612171802.SHWF2981.tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 502DCD73E6; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:18:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Nic Ferrier In-Reply-To: <874qc4tzbo.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> (Nic Ferrier's message of "Sat, 11 Jun 2005 21:26:19 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38653 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38653 > I agree that downloading a lot of files will be silly. Perhaps I will > set up a pool of 20 or so buffers for downloads and block or error > when the pool is exhausted. My guess is that the possible performance hit you'd get by using 100 or 1000 buffers would still be insignificant. Stefan "whose Emacs routinely has 100 buffers"