From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp Date: 10 May 2004 10:19:19 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87vfj4uzzs.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084202751 22786 80.91.224.253 (10 May 2004 15:25:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 15:25:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 10 17:25:37 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNCev-0002Mt-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 17:25:37 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNCeu-0003hb-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 17:25:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BNBdk-00011d-3c for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 10:20:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BNBdO-0000y7-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 10:19:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BNBcq-0000nl-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 10:19:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.93] (helo=tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BNBcp-0000nT-Qo; Mon, 10 May 2004 10:19:24 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.68.218.161]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040510141923.ZYNV11251.tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Mon, 10 May 2004 10:19:23 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 662D8D73CB; Mon, 10 May 2004 10:19:19 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: John Wiegley In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23041 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23041 > The following patch implements a file-handle interface for Emacs Lisp, > which allows files to be directly opened and read/written to without > an intervening buffer. Eshell can now use this, for example, to > greatly speed up output redirection (by several orders of magnitude). Doesn't seem like a bad idea, but I'd rather postpone it to after-the-release. Stefan