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Re: hidden buffers for async


From: Henrik Enberg
Subject: Re: hidden buffers for async
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:05:22 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

>> 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?

[...]

> I agree that downloading a lot of files will be silly. Perhaps I will
> set up a pool of 20 or so buffers for downloads and block or error
> when the pool is exhausted.
>
> Would that be a good idea?

If it's feasible, yes.  Even if using 1000 buffers wasn't a problem
memory-wise.  I much prefer programs that doesn't saturate my net
connection completely.




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