Re: Sv: Emacs HTTP libraries [was: Re: How to contribute new package to GNU ELPA?]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 15:14:35 +0200
> Cc: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>,
>  "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, Daniel Brooks <db48x@db48x.net>,
>  Darshit Shah <darnir@gnu.org>, Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>,
>  "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>, "Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org>
> 
> The other issue is that Emacs has a generally slow process interface due
> to the way it's geared towards inputting artefacts from the file
> systems, with all that entails for coding systems etc -- which is 100%
> irrelevant for the networking protocols that are dominant today, none of
> which are character oriented, but only deal with streams of octets.

We have the ability not to attempt decoding at all, don't we?  So why
is that still a problem?