Re: tramp (2.1.16-pre); Wicked slowdown

[David Abrahams]

On Apr 21, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:

> David Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Anyway, here's the same thing with tramp-verbose = 10 and zipped in
> > one file; hopefully that should be accepted.  I find this one even
> > more interesting to ediff.
>
> What I have seen from the traces is that the Tramp versions on linux  
> and
> mac differ. The version on mac is the more recent one.

Yeah, I noticed that last night.

> Recently, I have changed something with respect to prompt recognition
> and cache handling; maybe the slowdown is because of this. Could you,
> please, install recent Tramp from CVS on both machines, and check
> whether it happens on linux as well?

I did; it does not.

> And maybe you remember the timestamp of tramp.el as installed on linux
> just now, that we have a starting point for comparision.


I think this is all explained by the bug I reported against accept- 
process-output.  If we turn the timeout down to zero, everything goes  
lightning fast on the Mac.

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