speed up ?

[Alex V. Koval]

Hi!

I am using tramp for many years, and constanly thinking if there are any 
way to speed up things?
In parallel, sometimes i use Kate (KDE editor) and the speed of 
opening/listing/transferring
files is so superior there that sometimes, especially on slow 
connection, I run Kate because Emacs/tramp
are too slow.

Just to compare( I am specially testing by opening files on slow server, 
on another continent):

                                                                      
Kate      Emacs
Open new connection to server & list dir ... 8 sec     32 sec
Open small file............................................. <1 sec   18 
sec 
Save small file ............................................   1 sec    
12 sec

etc, etc. Emacs/tramp is so much slower...

Any advice to speed it up?
I've tried different transfer methods, nothing is fast. I only found that
emacs works fast when working on local server using /sudo:/ method.

I know that emacs & Kate are using different mechanisms. Kate is using 
KDE KPart fish:// mechanism. This
mechanism assumes working via remote Perl process .fishserv.pl. May be 
it is good idea to implement
tramp bindings to the same .fishserv.pl ?

Alex