Re: Faster start-file-process?

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:55:06 +0100, Philipp Stephani <address@hidden> 
>>>>> said:

    Philipp> Hi,
    Philipp> I managed to speed up start-file-process for SSH by a factor of 500
    Philipp> (on my machine) by enabling SSH control mode in ~/.ssh/config and 
then
    Philipp> just calling
    Philipp> (start-process name buffer "ssh" program args).
    Philipp> Such a speedup is crucial for using start-file-process for truly
    Philipp> asynchronous operations that may not block, e.g., Flymake backends.
    Philipp> Are there any downsides to my approach? Would if be possible to
    Philipp> include it in Tramp itself?

You mean like the following? :-)

    (defvar tramp-ssh-controlmaster-options nil
      "Which ssh Control* arguments to use.

    If it is a string, it should have the form
    \"-o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPath=\\='tramp.%%r@%%h:%%p\\='
    -o ControlPersist=no\".  Percent characters in the ControlPath
    spec must be doubled, because the string is used as format string.

    Otherwise, it will be auto-detected by Tramp, if
    `tramp-use-ssh-controlmaster-options' is non-nil.  The value
    depends on the installed local ssh version.

    The string is used in `tramp-methods'.")