Re: Improving emacs process performance (for free?)

[Kim F. Storm]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> 
> > I have previously reported the results of a test that I made to measure
> > emacs' process output handling speed, which indicated that we could
> > almost double the performance (at least on GNU/Linux) simply by
> > increasing the size of the read buffer from 1K to 10K.
> 
> Maybe using a page sized buffer would even be better.

Probably.

Or we can just use 4096 bytes for simplicity (that's still the page
size on most systems I think).  I don't have time to redo the
measurements, so let's just do that change.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk