From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: luke.olbrish@cc.gatech.edu (Luke A. Olbrish) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What's the problem? Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:27:33 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <7vd6au3eca.fsf@gehennom.net> References: <4nllpt3hr3.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <5bad69zd43.fsf@lister.roxen.com> <4noeuon378.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4ny8tsgxy6.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nhe0ggv0u.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nk75bwjaf.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nsmjv8d32.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <87iskpbloe.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AUdzt-0000UB-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:29:45 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AUdzt-00079g-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:29:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AUew2-00017b-85 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:29:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AUevj-00017H-If for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:29:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AUevD-0000nT-RX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:29:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [128.61.105.189] (helo=demogorgon.gehennom.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AUevD-0000nP-Hm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:28:59 -0500 Original-Received: by demogorgon.gehennom.net (Postfix, from userid 1012) id 62E932BC50; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:27:33 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Ted Zlatanov In-Reply-To: <4nptevry14.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:48:23 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18653 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18653 Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, rms@gnu.org wrote: > >> Gnus could compute the summary in the background, piece by piece, >> somewhat like stealth font-lock. (Not exactly the same, because >> whenever Emacs is otherwise idle it should work full time on >> producing summary items.) > > This seems to be a highly favored solution on this list because it > fits in easily with the existing interpreter. The downside is that it > does not use multiple processors if they exist, which has become more > common with today's hardware. is emacs so slow on today's hardware that it needs to be able to use multiple processors? it would seem that we could get more use out of work on the interpreter to make it more efficient than to get emacs to be able to utilize multiple processors. -- Luke Anthony Olbrish