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Re: Any idea about what makes Emacs slow reading on pipes?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Any idea about what makes Emacs slow reading on pipes?
Date: 18 May 2003 18:28:17 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> address@hidden (David Kastrup) writes:
> 
> > Interestingly enough, I can't reliably reproduce this effect either.
> > Hilarious.  Maybe it has something to do with what xterms I started as
> > background processes (different nicety?).  Oh, if I have a block
> > cursor blinking in yet another window, this seems to help.  Crazy.
> 
> So maybe neither the dd nor the infloop require 100% CPU.  Maybe the
> terminal (KDE program "konsole") is too slow in printing all this
> stuff?

Sigh.  What exactly about the word "xterm" don't you understand?  If
you don't use a terminal program that gets more efficient as it is
able to process larger batches, the exercise is pointless.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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