On Sat, Nov 04, 2023 at 10:13:13AM -0400, dick wrote: > t> a non-blocking network open is surprisingly hard to get right > > I point out url-retrieve is theoretically and empirically faster than > having the OS load another process into memory [...] I think it's not about "fast", but about "blocking". I tried to explain that, but it seems I failed miserably. Cheers -- t