Re: What's the problem?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, address@hidden wrote:

> Gnus could compute the summary in the background, piece by piece,
> somewhat like stealth font-lock.  (Not exactly the same, because
> whenever Emacs is otherwise idle it should work full time on
> producing summary items.)

This seems to be a highly favored solution on this list because it
fits in easily with the existing interpreter.  The downside is that it
does not use multiple processors if they exist, which has become more
common with today's hardware.

Ted