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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: offby1@blarg.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fix for slow process output processing (please test).
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:09:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2914-Mon05Jan2004210950+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5y8smmlr9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on 05 Jan 2004 16:57:14 +0100)

> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: 05 Jan 2004 16:57:14 +0100
> > 
> > I suppose that process-adaptive-read-buffering isn't really needed
> > on Windows,
> 
> Since Windows is slow, anyway?

I think the reason is that Windows never feeds Emacs with such small
chunks from a pipe.

> I suppose the problem could be that the Windows equivalent of
> "select" that Emacs uses does a busy wait without yielding the CPU.

I think that's not true: it does yield the CPU.  See w32proc.c:sys_select.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-05 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-16  1:21 Fix for slow process output processing (please test) Kim F. Storm
2003-12-16  2:14 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-16  3:34 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-16 10:23   ` Kim F. Storm
2003-12-16 11:51     ` David Kastrup
2003-12-16 13:24       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-03 15:12         ` David Kastrup
2004-01-04 23:00           ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-03 22:07 ` Eric Hanchrow
2004-01-04 22:42   ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-05 15:57     ` David Kastrup
2004-01-05 19:09       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-01-05 19:39         ` David Kastrup
2004-01-05 19:52         ` Jason Rumney
2004-01-05 23:28           ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-05 23:16             ` Jason Rumney
2004-01-05 23:44               ` David Kastrup
2004-01-06  0:23                 ` Jason Rumney
2004-01-07  0:40               ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-05 23:35       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-05 22:50         ` David Kastrup
2004-01-06  0:09           ` Kim F. Storm

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