GNU bug report logs - #40676
28.0.50; gnus locks when reading email

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Message #42 received at 40676 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Philip K." <philip <at> warpmail.net>
Cc: contovob <at> tcd.ie, rpluim <at> gmail.com, eliz <at> gnu.org, alex.branham <at> gmail.com,
 40676 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40676: 28.0.50; gnus locks when reading email
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 15:02:35 +0200

"Philip K." <philip <at> warpmail.net> writes:

> That was part of the rationale behind #40355, but the best way I see to
> fix this would be to implement asynchronous DNS, since a libravatar
> lookup has two phases (DNS lookup + image retrieval), compared to
> Gravatar's single request.

A cache would be a band-aid -- it still will have to do these lookups
occasionally, and the user experience in Gnus suffers.

As it stands, librgravatar shouldn't be the default gravatar provider.

But, yes, Emacs should have asynchronous DNS support, and adding that
probably isn't too difficult, I'd have thought?

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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