GNU bug report logs - #895
slow processing of process output

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 15:50:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 895 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: 895 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#895: slow processing of process output
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:07:13 -0400

>> I can reproduce the problem on OSX, and could significantly improve the
>> running time by setting process-connection-type to nil before doing the
>> rgrep. Let rgrep.el consist of:
>> 
>> (grep-compute-defaults)
>> (setq process-connection-type nil)
>> (rgrep "emacs" "*.el" "~/emacs/lisp/")
>> 
>> (while (process-status "grep")
>> (sit-for 0.1))

> I've now bound `process-connection-type' to nil in `rgrep' for Emacs 24.

What makes it faster?
Could it be that with process-connection-type set to nil grep doesn't emit
the color escape sequences?


        Stefan
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