From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henrik Enberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: hidden buffers for async Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:05:22 +0200 Message-ID: <87zmtwtxil.fsf@rocksteady.printf.se> 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 1118524489 27527 80.91.229.2 (11 Jun 2005 21:14:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 21:14:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 11 23:14:40 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhDJG-0001dN-Fr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:14:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhDNi-0002EA-NQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:19:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DhDFZ-0005RM-Pf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:10:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DhDCY-0004Sn-ON for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:07:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhDCT-0004Nt-5D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:07:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DhDB8-000128-VO; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:06:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rocksteady.printf.se (81.224.154.131) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.059.6) id 429C5276002AB405; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:05:22 +0200 Original-Received: by rocksteady.printf.se (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8D0C33F88; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:05:22 +0200 (CEST) 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:38596 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38596 Nic Ferrier writes: > Richard Stallman writes: [...] >> Creating that many buffers might cause various sorts of overload >> for Emacs. Can't you use one buffer for all the information, >> and sort it out at the end? [...] > 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. > > Would that be a good idea? If it's feasible, yes. Even if using 1000 buffers wasn't a problem memory-wise. I much prefer programs that doesn't saturate my net connection completely.