From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen@gmail.com>
Cc: 26397@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26397: 25.1; call-process slow on macOS and slower on larger frames
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 20:19:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170408191959.GA7541@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHyO48wNKPu_MUT2sotiQPPVom=cttY9argqYJyYJ2NUG0mxgQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 08:47:25AM -0700, Aaron Jensen wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 12:37 AM, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
> <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> >
> > Probably "fork" copies some GUI resources. That would also explain
> > why the performance is worse on the Mac port, where each frame
> > allocates an extra NSWindow for overlaying.
> >
> > It becomes much faster and seemingly unaffected by the frame size if
> > you comment out "#undef HAVE_WORKING_VFORK" and "#define vfork fork"
> > in src/conf_post.h. But I'm not sure if it is safe.
>
> Wow, that does make a big difference. The comment says that Emacs
> hangs when evaluating:
>
> (make-comint "test0" "/nodir/nofile" nil "")
>
> But I can not reproduce that currently with vfork. I do not understand
> the second comment: "Also, setsid is not allowed in the vfork child's
> context as of Darwin 9/Mac OS X 10.5."
It looks to me like we could replace the call to setsid with
setpgid (0, 0);
for Darwin builds. However I can’t tell for sure if that function is
allowed after vfork, as I can’t even find any official reference to
setsid not being allowed.
I’m probably just not looking hard enough.
It seems the ‘correct’ solution for macOS is to use posix_spawn
instead of (v)fork/exec, but that would probably require a larger
change, and Daniel Colascione seems to have looked into it before, and
come across this very issue:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-01/msg00078.html
He doesn’t seem to have got an answer, though, and Emacs no longer
falls back to setpgid on any platform (see commit
dd0333b6155c9c3aabdac9418c005e2e5b4796e7).
> How might I test that?
The call to setsid is inside an `if` that’s to do with ptys. I suspect
it must come into play if you’re using Emacs in a text terminal,
rather than as a GUI app. I can’t check this just now as my master
won’t build...
--
Alan Third
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-08 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-08 6:25 bug#26397: 25.1; call-process slow on macOS and slower on larger frames Aaron Jensen
2017-04-08 7:37 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2017-04-08 15:47 ` Aaron Jensen
2017-04-08 19:19 ` Alan Third [this message]
2017-04-09 13:01 ` Alan Third
2017-04-09 15:07 ` Aaron Jensen
2017-04-09 19:18 ` bug#26397: [PATCH] Use vfork if possible on Darwin (bug#26397) Alan Third
2017-04-09 20:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-04-09 21:34 ` Alan Third
2017-04-09 23:46 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2017-04-10 0:06 ` Aaron Jensen
2017-04-10 1:11 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2017-04-10 4:13 ` Aaron Jensen
2017-04-10 15:42 ` bug#26397: [PATCH v2] " Alan Third
2017-04-11 7:06 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2017-04-18 2:29 ` Aaron Jensen
2017-04-18 10:48 ` Alan Third
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