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Adaptive read buffering is a pessimization

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From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 75574 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75574: Adaptive read buffering is a pessimization
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:49:14 -0800

On February 10, 2025 12:55:58 PM PST, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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/13742752.post <at> talk.nabble.com/
>https://yhetil.org/emacs-bugs/1B2B2EF98D55CB41BD16F13B18B9B0080303EF48 <at> FFBRUE001.cfmu.corp.eurocontrol.int/
>https://yhetil.org/emacs-bugs/873an4b898.fsf__5420.00031932748$1214278000$gmane$org <at> ambire.localdomain/
>
>> 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?


Thanks. I hadn't gotten around to doing it myself. Obsolete sounds good to me.

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