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Re: limitation in how emacs processes subprocess output, maybe belongs t
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Robert Pluim |
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Re: limitation in how emacs processes subprocess output, maybe belongs to mainstream |
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Wed, 25 May 2022 18:23:55 +0200 |
>>>>> On Wed, 25 May 2022 15:10:55 +0300, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> said:
Jean> I have read in Emacs News by Sacha Chua, about this Eshell speed up:
Jean> From 70 Seconds To 3 Seconds
Jean> https://tdodge.consulting/blog/eshell/background-output-thread
Jean> and the fork of Emacs is here:
Jean> GitHub - tyler-dodge/emacs: Fork of emacs mirror Emacs. Has a
Jean> background thread optimization for getting past the 1024 byte
Jean> bottleneck on MacOS
Jean> https://github.com/tyler-dodge/emacs
Jean> Where author writes:
>> In a change that I made to my fork of emacs, I added a background
>> thread that continuously handles buffering subprocess output. This
>> has the benefit of ensuring that the subprocess output is consumed
>> as soon as it is available in STDOUT, which minimizes the amount of
>> time that the subprocess blocks waiting for emacs to consume its
>> output. This also makes it so that the strings passed to the
>> subprocess filter can be larger than 1024 bytes because multiple
>> reads can happen in the time between event loop evaluations.
Jean> Maybe developers and author may find it useful to implement author's
Jean> feature in the main stream Emacs?
Maybe. What's the copyright status of those changes?
Thanks
Robert
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