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bug#18626: 24.3.94; communication with subprocess is slow
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Stephen Leake |
Subject: |
bug#18626: 24.3.94; communication with subprocess is slow |
Date: |
Sun, 05 Oct 2014 13:19:18 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
>> Cc: 18626@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 08:41:08 -0500
>>
>> (find-file "xdisp.c")
>> (pipe-torture
>> "/home/Projects/org.emacs.ada-mode.stephe-1/build/wisi/debug_counted"
>> "4096" "974230")
>>
>> 0.344027
>>
>> This is comparable to the time on Windows with a large buffer in the
>> subprocess. So apparently it is not using the same delay in
>> send_process. Or the IO system is providing a large buffer.
>
> Evidently, subprocess I/O is more efficient on GNU/Linux than it is on
> Windows. Perhaps this is related to the fact that by default
> GNU/Linux uses PTYs for that, not pipes. Did you try your experiments
> with process-connection-type bound to nil?
On Debian:
(setq process-connection-type nil)
(pipe-torture-read "/home/Projects/emacs/emacs-24.3.94/src/xdisp.c")
0.074980
no signficant change
(find-file "xdisp.c")
(pipe-torture
"/home/Projects/org.emacs.ada-mode.stephe-1/build/wisi/debug_counted"
"4096" "974230")
0.294485, 0.304046, 0.343767
(pipe-torture
"/home/Projects/org.emacs.ada-mode.stephe-1/build/wisi/debug_counted"
"40000" "974230")
0.341241, 0.342165
Slower than pty, but much faster than Windows, and still independent of
subprocess read buffer size.
(setq process-connection-type nil) also eliminates the line-by-line
read; for a buffer size of 4096, Read returns 4096 until the end of the
text. For a buffer size of 40000, Read returns 40000 or 25536 until the
end of the text. (+ 40000 25536) = 65536, which makes sense for the
default pipe buffer size.
Given a send_process delay of 0.020 on EWOULD_BLOCK, and a buffer size
of 65536, the expected write time is (* 0.020 (/ 974230 65536)) = 0.28,
comparable to what we see.
Apparently pty's do the line by line send. Which makes sense for a
"psuedo-terminal". And they also apparently use a larger internal
buffer.
--
-- Stephe
bug#18626: 24.3.94; communication with subprocess is slow, Stephen Leake, 2014/10/04
- bug#18626: 24.3.94; communication with subprocess is slow, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/04
- bug#18626: 24.3.94; communication with subprocess is slow, Stephen Leake, 2014/10/05
- bug#18626: 24.3.94; communication with subprocess is slow, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/05
- bug#18626: 24.3.94; communication with subprocess is slow, Stephen Leake, 2014/10/05
- bug#18626: 24.3.94; communication with subprocess is slow, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/05
- bug#18626: 24.3.94; communication with subprocess is slow, Stephen Leake, 2014/10/08
- bug#18626: 24.3.94; communication with subprocess is slow, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/08