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Re: Fix for slow process output processing (please test).


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Fix for slow process output processing (please test).
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:09:50 +0200

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: 05 Jan 2004 16:57:14 +0100
> > 
> > I suppose that process-adaptive-read-buffering isn't really needed
> > on Windows,
> 
> Since Windows is slow, anyway?

I think the reason is that Windows never feeds Emacs with such small
chunks from a pipe.

> I suppose the problem could be that the Windows equivalent of
> "select" that Emacs uses does a busy wait without yielding the CPU.

I think that's not true: it does yield the CPU.  See w32proc.c:sys_select.




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