Re: slow processing of process output when it's huge

[Sean O'Rourke <seano@cs.ucla.edu>]

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
> I run by mistake vc-print-log at the top of the tree of a Linux
> git tree.  After 15 minutes of running I gave up and killed it.

How much of that is fontification?  I've had this[1] in my .emacs
since forever for when I make a similar mistake in comint, and
while it's still slow, it's much less so.

Sean

[1]
(defun my-comint-stfu-toss (x) "")
(defun my-comint-stfu ()
  "Start (or stop) tossing comint output."
  (interactive)
  (if (and (boundp 'comint-preoutput-filter-functions)
	   (member 'my-comint-stfu-toss comint-preoutput-filter-functions))
      (setq comint-preoutput-filter-functions
	    (remove 'my-comint-stfu-toss comint-preoutput-filter-functions))
      (add-hook 'comint-preoutput-filter-functions
		'my-comint-stfu-toss)))