Re: Introducing thread-safe Tramp

[Michael Albinus]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> On 7/25/18 12:46 PM, Michael Albinus wrote:
>> But I don't believe people will always visit files asynchronously. They
>> will do it for remote files, they will do it for huge files. But for my
>> daily work with local small files, this would be overkill.
>
> Wouldn't a small file just load immediately, thus sparing the user
> from having to look at the "loading" indicator?

If it is a remote file, and the connetion has not been established yet,
it would take more time due to the initial hand-shaking.

And git's vc-refresh-state implementation takes more time for small
remote files than loading the file into the buffer, due to the remote
processes being called.

Best regards, Michael.