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Re:Emacs 27.2 by taeric on Friday March 26, 2021 @11:15AM (#26593126)
Do you know what makes it freeze? My gut would be that they did not set a buffer with a sentinel, such that even with threading, they would have still don't a blocking call there.

That said, valid points. I am curious to benchmark parts of emacs now. (I turned off most programming features, since most of my code is remote and the network at home kills me.)

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Re:Emacs 27.2 by chriswarbo on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:54PM (#26596818)
> Do you know what makes it freeze?

For Gnus it was using the built-in fetchers like nnrss, which would block the Emacs process until downloads finished. Using a cron job to fetch RSS feeds avoided this, but it would still take a while to check for updates even from local files. This was around 2012, so Gnus might have improved since.

FYI my current setup is described at http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2017-01-14-rss_to_maildir.html

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