From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gnu Emacs way slower than XEmacs Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:36:18 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84r87ulpts.fsf@boost-consulting.com> <20030422123301.GA26968@gnu.org> <84lly2lity.fsf@boost-consulting.com> <20030422150920.GA7693@gnu.org> <84n0iijz8u.fsf@boost-consulting.com> <848yu2tmc4.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <9003-Wed23Apr2003214013+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <87vfx48ig3.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051195158 25806 80.91.224.249 (24 Apr 2003 14:39:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:39:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 24 16:39:15 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 198hrY-0006bf-00 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:38:12 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 198hxo-0004wx-00 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:44:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 198hrU-0003TX-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:38:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 198hqy-00036W-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:37:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 198hqk-0002mI-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from stlport.com ([64.39.31.56]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 198hq5-0002Gc-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:36:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [146.115.123.42] (account dave HELO PENGUIN.boost-consulting.com) by stlport.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 228158; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 07:36:40 -0700 Original-To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:17:25 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) XEmacs/21.4 (Native Windows TTY Support (Windows), windows-nt) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13428 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13428 Simon Josefsson writes: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > >>>>>>> "David" == David Abrahams writes: >> >> David> P.S. If it's any consolation, GNU Emacs is *WAY* faster >> David> than XEmacs at sending mail to the SMTP server ;-) >> >> Right. That's because traditionally we assumed that sendmail always >> worked and used an asynchronous process. Then we started having >> people use less reliable software (eg, beta versions of TMDA) and >> losing mail. So now we wait on the return code. Perhaps this could >> be tweaked a bit, or made user-configurable, but we were in a hurry to >> get it right at the time; losing mail is a no-no. > > It's not clear if "sending mail" means sendmail or smtpmail -- > David? I'm using smtpmail. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com