Re: Introducing thread-safe Tramp

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 7/28/18 12:18 PM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> If it is a remote file, and the connetion has not been established yet,
> it would take more time due to the initial hand-shaking.
>
> And git's vc-refresh-state implementation takes more time for small
> remote files than loading the file into the buffer, due to the remote
> processes being called.

In both of those cases, opening the file asynchronously probably makes 
more sense, IMHO.

So I think a global user option should do fine. Maybe even just a 
boolean by default: the case you described is a remote file, so there's 
still no counter-argument for opening small local files asynchronously.