Re: very slow archive-mode

[Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>]

>> Using a separate unibyte buffer may be a good solution, but there is one
>> possible problem: it would be difficult to find this hidden separate
>> buffer to kill it with the purpose to free up the memory occupied by the
>> file buffer after interrupting its loading (perhaps, this buffer can be
>> killed using unwind-protect during loading and kill-buffer-hook for C-x k).
>
>> So it seems a separate unibyte buffer would be necessary only if it will
>> be impossible to get the fast reading without leaving the file buffer
>> in the modified state.
>
> I installed a change to use no-convesion-multibyte for
> archive files.   Please try with the latest code.

Thank you very much.  Now large archives are opened instantly.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/