[Unison-hackers] About the current OS X GUI hanging

[Trevor Jim]

Right.  Since Ben wrote the code I was hoping he'd chip in with a spec
about what it is doing, in the absence of that we'll have to reverse
engineer.  I guess that it is not sufficient to pre-fetch, though, we
want to report on the state of the transfer (% finished, etc.).

-Trevor

Benjamin Pierce wrote:
> Another thing to think about is whether these calls from the GUI into  
> OCaml while an OCaml thread is already running are really needed --  
> it may be that they are just looking up little bits of information  
> that could just as easily be pre-fetched into C data structures in  
> the main thread...