Re: hidden buffers for async

[Henrik Enberg]

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.