Re: offlineimap optimisations

[martin f krafft <madduck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

also sprach martin f krafft <madduck@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2008.05.13.0945 +0100]:
> 1. offlineimap *churns* through PIDs. I know the programme uses
>    threads, but in my understanding, threads don't eat PIDs, only
>    forks do. So what is it doing, consuming somewhere in the
>    vicinity of 100 PIDs per minute?
I've stand corrected. It makes me want to think that offlineimap
should really be working threadlessly though. There's been an
interesting discussion on #debian-devel on this:

  
http://git.debian.org/?p=netconf/netconf.git;a=blob;f=ref/irclog-2008.01.16-no-polling-no-threads;hb=HEAD
  
http://git.debian.org/?p=netconf/netconf.git;a=blob;f=ref/irclog-2008.01.22-more-no-threads-and-timeouts;hb=HEAD

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