From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving emacs process performance (for free?) Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 18:25:48 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085675393 19211 80.91.224.253 (27 May 2004 16:29:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 16:29:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 27 18:29:40 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 1BTNlE-0004lq-00 for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 18:29:40 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BTNlD-0005Xe-00 for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 18:29:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BTNii-0007iI-FV for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 27 May 2004 12:27:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BTNi2-0007hW-Tr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 May 2004 12:26:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BTNhW-0007b2-OO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 May 2004 12:26:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BTNhW-0007ae-AA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 May 2004 12:25:50 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.suse.de (hermes-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA37D62DE21; Thu, 27 May 2004 18:25:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) X-Yow: Is this ANYWHERE, USA? In-Reply-To: (Kim F. Storm's message of "26 May 2004 23:23:21 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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:24027 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24027 storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > I have previously reported the results of a test that I made to measure > emacs' process output handling speed, which indicated that we could > almost double the performance (at least on GNU/Linux) simply by > increasing the size of the read buffer from 1K to 10K. Maybe using a page sized buffer would even be better. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."