Re: Any idea about what makes Emacs slow reading on pipes?

[David Kastrup]

Kevin Rodgers <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> > Probably od -h -v or something.  The point was just fast producing
> > large amounts of more or less reproducable text.
> 
> 
> Using "od -v" runs fast from the start on GNU Emacs 21.3.1
> (i386-pc-solaris2.7, X toolkit).

What's the distribution of filter lengths with the separate test
program I posted?  Something less extreme than switching between 1 and
1024?

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