Re: Faster binary IO, please?

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

> Mario Lang <address@hidden> writes:
>>   1. possibly suggest a speedup in the functions as they are now
>>   2. implement some of them as a primitive in C

> i suggest making the buffer in which you operate "unibyte", arranging
> for the insertion of external data in the buffer (for example, in a
> subprocess output handler) to use the `raw-text' character encoding, and
> using bindat.el on the buffer for the (un)packing.  more info at:

Please note that raw-text is not for "binary" data because
raw-text does, for instance, CRLF -> LF conversion.  Use
`binary' (alias of `no-conversion') instead.

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Kenichi Handa
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