Re: Faster start-file-process?

[Philipp Stephani]

Am Fr., 20. März 2020 um 18:02 Uhr schrieb Michael Albinus
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> Philipp Stephani <address@hidden> writes:
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> Hi Philipp,
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> > Thanks for looking into it!
>
> I just want to tell you that my answer to you is on my todo. Due to
> personal problems in my family, it might take some days until I'm able
> to do. Sorry.

No worries! Your family is obviously more important than this.

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> > This uses the current master of Tramp. All these results are
> > statistically significant (on my machine, that is). I think at least
> > start-file-process and make-process should definitely switch to the
> > connectionless approach (or at least offer it as option), that would
> > make language servers or Flymake backends over SSH possible.
> > I'm also happy to contribute patches!
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> I plan to provide a detailed analysis what happens in Tramp when running
> an asynchronous process. Based on this, we could discuss
> improvements. With commit 4c3c175a63823d851c7e9326f4f70c81b9c0110e I've
> done already a first step this direction.
>
> Another vague idea is to change make-process to a kind of
> "connection-less", and keep start-process as-it-is. Let's see how far we
> go.

Yes, start-file-process already calls make-process in the newest TRAMP
and doesn't need to be modified any more.