Subject: bug#75574: Adaptive read buffering is a pessimization

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:21:23 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:55:58 -0800
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > It wasn't just a good idea, though.  It actually helped fix some use
> > cases.
> 
> There is evidence that setting it to nil solved issues too:
> 
> https://yhetil.org/emacs-bugs/[email-masked]/
> https://yhetil.org/emacs-bugs/[email-masked]/
> https://yhetil.org/emacs-bugs/[email-masked]/
> 
> > We could begin by setting this variable nil by default and see if
> > someone complains.  If enough time has passed without any complaints,
> > we could then consider actually removing the feature.
> 
> So let's do that.  I have now changed the default on master (commit
> 8437bcb5c96).
> 
> Does anyone object to also marking the variable as obsolete now?

I suggest to first see if the new setting causes any problems.
There's no need to hurry with obsoleting it, since un-obsoleting is a
problematic process, as we've seen in the past.