Gerd Möllmann writes:
> 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 ev
Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> 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 emac
Drew Adams writes:
> [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 oft
Arthur Miller writes:
> Gerd Möllmann writes:
>> I'm pretty sure that CL packages could be added to Emacs as it is, if
>> some people would work on it.
>
> With "CL packages" you mean namespaces? There seem to be already a
> branch that implements them, but I don't know how well it works, I
> ha
> From: Gerd Möllmann
> Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:03:00 +0200
>
> I think the biggest problem with uncooperative multi-threading in Emacs
> is that Emacs has so much global state. As a consequence, it's unsafe
> to let two threads use anything in the C code in parall
Arthur Miller writes:
> Sory if it came out as a tirade, it answer on the mail before, your
> thoughts in that mail, and also me complaining about some persons taking
> very much freedom in how they talk to or about me, and when answered
> back I am threatened to be blocked from here. It perhaps
Fraga, Eric 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.
"What servers", does that mean what servers in particular or
what server types, i.e. the protocols employed?
Here are my 5 protocols and 6 se
joakim wrote:
>> I've heard many times that Gnus is slow, but never
>> experienced it. I have 6 servers and 26 groups.
>
> About 700 groups, a mix of nnimap, and nntp.
700 groups! Here we see the elite .se hackers at work.
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