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Hello!

iyzsong@member.fsf.org (=E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6) skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

[...]

>> To address these, I would use =E2=80=98abort-to-prompt=E2=80=99 & co., p=
ossibly with
>> =E2=80=9Csuspendable ports=E2=80=9D, but this is a 2.2 feature.  (It may=
 be that we
>> should use Fibers directly.)
>
> Sure, I=E2=80=99d like to try fibers.  When we can drop the support of Gu=
ile
> 2.0?  (I guess one sign is that 2.2 is in the debian stable.)

=E2=80=9CSometime.=E2=80=9D  :-)

IMO we should keep supporting 2.0 until 2.2=E2=80=99s compiler has reasonab=
le
resource consumption.

>> Tricky!  Not sure what to do here.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> How about replace the use of thread from =E2=80=98progress-reporter/file=
=E2=80=99 by a
> =E2=80=98rate-limited=E2=80=99 render procedure, and then change the elap=
sed time to
> ETA, which is okay without updating in seconds?

Roughly what you did initially, right?  That sounds good to me.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.