Merge from gnus--devo--0

[gnu-emacs] / lisp / gnus / nnheader.el

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/nnheader.el b/lisp/gnus/nnheader.el
index 349c452b8a5a96819f01de7a74a585fca83d0334..572f80bea9d9ad006f74e13e74be35d3e5e4daf5 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/gnus/nnheader.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/nnheader.el
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ;; Copyright (C) 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994,
 ;;   1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
-;;   2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;;   2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 ;; Author: Masanobu UMEDA <umerin@flab.flab.fujitsu.junet>
 ;;     Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
@@ -86,7 +86,14 @@ Integer values will in effect be rounded up to the nearest multiple of
       ;; what's possible.  Perhaps better, maybe the Windows/DOS primitive
       ;; could round up non-zero timeouts to a minimum of 1.0?
       1.0
+    ;; 2008-05-19 change by Larsi:
+    ;; Change the default timeout from 0.1 seconds to 0.01 seconds.  This will
+    ;; make nntp and pop3 article retrieval faster in some cases, but might
+    ;; make CPU usage larger.  If this has any bad side effects, we might
+    ;; revert this change.
     0.01)
+  ;; When changing this variable, consider changing `pop3-read-timeout' as
+  ;; well.
   "How long nntp should wait between checking for the end of output.
 Shorter values mean quicker response, but are more CPU intensive.")
 
@@ -1057,6 +1064,8 @@ See `find-file-noselect' for the arguments."
 (defalias 'nnheader-cancel-timer 'cancel-timer)
 (defalias 'nnheader-cancel-function-timers 'cancel-function-timers)
 
+;; When changing this function, consider changing `pop3-accept-process-output'
+;; as well.
 (defun nnheader-accept-process-output (process)
   (accept-process-output
    process