From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: async 1.0 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:39:45 +0200 Message-ID: <87r4t7sepa.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87vcij7rvi.fsf@mithlond.arda> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340368806 19595 80.91.229.3 (22 Jun 2012 12:40:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:40:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Teemu Likonen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 22 14:40:05 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Si39h-0004bt-52 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:40:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37796 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Si39e-0004xN-TP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:40:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50266) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Si39Y-0004wx-CB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:40:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Si39T-00051v-Q6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:39:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:40718) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Si39T-00051c-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:39:51 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2012 12:39:48 -0000 Original-Received: from p57BB8A1D.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO detlef.gmx.de) [87.187.138.29] by mail.gmx.net (mp035) with SMTP; 22 Jun 2012 14:39:48 +0200 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/WBnpEgxPWctQml0Dw/5Z+Gh30NFsvmfUJoWfzKI qbQbT8+4Hzy6ew In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:54:17 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.23 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:151087 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: >>>>>> Teemu Likonen writes: > >> It loads quickly from cache: >> real 0m0.044s > >> But: >> real 0m2.288s > > Understood, but still miniscule compared to the 30 seconds I have to wait to > send an e-mail with a multi-megabyte attachment. > > Now, a smart `fork' primitive could make this all moot, if it were able to > fork the "base" state of Emacs only.... Or you keep the Emacs daemons running in the background, waiting for new tasks. Communication could be via D-Bus (queued services). But I have no idea, how much it would improve reactiveness. And it wouldn't run on all platforms Emacs supports. > John Best regards, Michael.