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bug#895: slow processing of process output
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
bug#895: slow processing of process output |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:32:57 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Markus Triska <markus.triska@gmx.at> writes:
>
>> I can reproduce the problem on OSX, and could significantly improve the
>> running time by setting process-connection-type to nil before doing the
>> rgrep. Let rgrep.el consist of:
>>
>> (grep-compute-defaults)
>> (setq process-connection-type nil)
>> (rgrep "emacs" "*.el" "~/emacs/lisp/")
>>
>> (while (process-status "grep")
>> (sit-for 0.1))
>
> I've now bound `process-connection-type' to nil in `rgrep' for Emacs 24.
This might solve the specific `rgrep' case, but that was only a specific
easy to reproduce example.
Processing process output is slow for other things too.
For example compare the time to run
make bootstrap
when using M-x compile
vs doing it in an xterm.