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[PATCH] Reduce GC churn in read_process_output

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>,  Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 66020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66020: (bug#64735 spin-off): regarding the default for read-process-output-max
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 01:07:29 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Stefan & Stefan: any comments or suggestions?

FWIW, I've had the below snippet in my .emacs for the last two years,
and haven't noticed any adverse effects.  I never bothered making any
actual benchmarks though:

    ;; Maybe faster:
    (setq read-process-output-max
          (max read-process-output-max (* 64 1024)))

I added the above after the discussion here:

    https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2021-03/msg01461.html

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