Re: Shrinking the C core

2023-09-13 Thread Gerd Möllmann
Arthur Miller writes: >>> IMNSHO, discussing a rewrite of Emacs in _any_ language is waste of >>> time and energy. We've seen this many times (because people still >>> insist on bringing this up from time to time). From where I stand, >>> the main reason is not even the fact that we decided not

Re: Shrinking the C core

2023-09-13 Thread Emanuel Berg
joakim wrote: >>> Gnus refreshes slowly, maybe that could be helped with >>> concurrency, but it could also be helped with more async >>> work in gnus. >> >> Concurrency can help you keep reading messages while Gnus >> refreshes in parallel, but it won't easily help you refresh >> faster, unless s

Re: Shrinking the C core

2023-09-13 Thread joakim
Emanuel Berg writes: > joakim wrote: > Gnus refreshes slowly, maybe that could be helped with concurrency, but it could also be helped with more async work in gnus. >>> >>> Concurrency can help you keep reading messages while Gnus >>> refreshes in parallel, but it won't easily help

Re: [External] : Re: Shrinking the C core

2023-09-13 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Arthur Miller > Cc: Gerd Möllmann , > e...@thyrsus.com, > r...@gnu.org, drew.ad...@oracle.com, a...@muc.de, luang...@yahoo.com, > emacs-tangents@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 21:58:43 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > [Redirected to emacs-tangents] > > > >> From: Gerd Mö

RE: [External] : Re: Shrinking the C core

2023-09-13 Thread Drew Adams
[Moving reply to e-tangents.] > > I would not object to using keyword arguments for functions > > like that -- complex and cumbersome to use, and not used often. > > Well, than we pretty much agree 100% about keyword args. +1. Except maybe for the "not used often". Depends on the "often" use.

Re: Shrinking the C core

2023-09-13 Thread Fraga, Eric
On Wednesday, 13 Sep 2023 at 07:05, Emanuel Berg wrote: > How many do people have, for it to get slow? It's not just the number of groups etc. but also what servers you need to access. The latter is not specifically an issue with gnus in that any other MUA would suffer as well; the problem is tha