Re: very slow archive-mode

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

> Using a separate unibyte buffer may be a good solution, but there is one
> possible problem: it would be difficult to find this hidden separate
> buffer to kill it with the purpose to free up the memory occupied by the
> file buffer after interrupting its loading (perhaps, this buffer can be
> killed using unwind-protect during loading and kill-buffer-hook for C-x k).

> So it seems a separate unibyte buffer would be necessary only if it will
> be impossible to get the fast reading without leaving the file buffer
> in the modified state.

I installed a change to use no-convesion-multibyte for
archive files.   Please try with the latest code.

> PS. Fortunately, I had a copy of the corrupted archive on a DVD,
> so nothing was lost, but nevertheless this is a damaging problem.

Hering that, I feel greatly reliaved.

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Kenichi Handa
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