From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Asynchronous DNS Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:34:46 +1100 Message-ID: <8737t2k9g9.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87si1gx6wz.fsf@gnus.org> <86y4b5zvzt.fsf@gmail.com> <8760y9kwrk.fsf@gnus.org> <8760y7nag7.fsf@gnus.org> <83oabzzsjq.fsf@gnu.org> <87fuxazkfe.fsf@gnus.org> <83io25yeqk.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9hpnreg.fsf@gnus.org> <83y4b0wi7m.fsf@gnu.org> <87si17evk6.fsf@gnus.org> <83twlnvcz2.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb63obm3.fsf@gnus.org> <87r3gqmg6g.fsf@gnus.org> <83egcqtfnm.fsf@gnu.org> <86mvrdmk8p.fsf@realize.ch> <83mvrcsefa.fsf@gnu.org> <871t8o556n.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454978151 19825 80.91.229.3 (9 Feb 2016 00:35:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 00:35:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alain Schneble , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 09 01:35:41 2016 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 1aSwHL-0005NN-DZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 01:35:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50301 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSwHK-0004CA-KB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:35:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57259) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSwH2-0004Bx-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:35:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSwGz-00059O-2M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:35:20 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:47019) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSwGy-00058P-S0; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:35:16 -0500 Original-Received: from cpe-60-225-211-161.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([60.225.211.161] helo=mouse) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aSwGZ-00055e-U2; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 01:34:52 +0100 In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Mon, 08 Feb 2016 10:56:05 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1aSwGZ-00055e-U2 MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1455582894.0321@Juk+VnbquOb7X6vya4nJuA X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.224.195 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:199568 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: > I mentioned async.el before in connection in improving asynchronicity in Gnus, > but I don't think you responded. Would you mind giving me your comments as to > its applicability Well, I think async.el is fine as a tool to do async computation, but when we're dealing with network sockets, we already have the tools to do async handling in a single Emacs, which simplifies some things. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no