Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But IMAP can be asked to download lots of files at once and will be > chunking them all. So I wanted to have lots of chunk buffers, one for > each file transfer. When the files are downloaded they can be put > straight into the correct mode for displaying the file. > > So there might be 10 or 20 (or 1000) buffers all recieving chunks of > files from IMAP. > > 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?
The number of buffers would be 1:1 with the number of files being downloaded. Aggregating the data is the problem I was trying to avoid. Because the downloads all finish at different times it makes sorting the data difficult. 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? Nic _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
