From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: hidden buffers for async Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:37:39 -0400 Message-ID: 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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118443704 13392 80.91.229.2 (10 Jun 2005 22:48:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:48:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 11 00:48:24 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgsIN-0006MX-6R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:48:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgsMd-0005s6-Mj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DgsK1-0004oZ-JO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:49:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DgsJw-0004k4-6g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:49:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgsJv-0004ft-2s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:49:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dgs8t-0003T4-Ha for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:38:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Dgs8B-0003Pt-Kk; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:37:39 -0400 Original-To: Nic Ferrier In-reply-to: (message from Nic Ferrier on Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:15:49 +0100) 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:38542 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38542 But IMAP can be asked to download lots of files at once and will be chunking them all. So I wanted to have lots of chunk buffers, one for each file transfer. When the files are downloaded they can be put straight into the correct mode for displaying the file. So there might be 10 or 20 (or 1000) buffers all recieving chunks of files from IMAP. 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?