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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: mardani29@yahoo.es,  arthur.miller@live.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   db48x@db48x.net,  darnir@gnu.org,  adam@alphapapa.net,  raman@google.com,
>   jemarch@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 15:48:20 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > We have the ability not to attempt decoding at all, don't we?  So why
> > is that still a problem?
> 
> I don't know that it is.  The last time I poked at this (which is a
> couple years ago), I determined that the Emacs network/process handling
> code was slow, but I got distracted before I found out why.

I'd be surprised if the reason was decoding.  I think, if it's still
slow, the reason is elsewhere.  But in any case, the effect of
decoding is simple to measure, by binding coding-system's to
'no-conversion when opening the network stream.