Re: Asynchronous DNS

[Alain Schneble]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Alain Schneble <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The following patch removes the separate dns_processes list in favour of
>> reusing Vprocess_alist.  The latter list is now used to loop over all
>> processes -- to check if pending DNS requests have completed.
>>
>> Do you agree whith this change?
>
> Well, it changes a test in the network loop that is basically a if (!
> NILP (Qnil)) in 99.9999% (plus some nines) of the cases with code that
> loops through all processes in the network loop all the time.

True.  Seems like I was too naive. I thought that these additional
cycles were negligible (even though it's O(n)...).

> That doesn't seem like a good idea, performance wise.

Alright.  Anyway, many thanks for looking into it!