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From:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
Organization:	INTI
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 1998 12:13:39 +0000
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: Ispell and pipes
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In-reply-to:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980722174032.12232G-100000@is>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> > I remmember I had some success using the Bill's driver that makes the 
> > transfer buffer shared. But that's slow and needs the driver loaded. 
> 
> This mechanism will be used in interactive programs and in applications
> like an editor which lets the compiler run in the background.  For
> example, Emacs' support for async subprocesses is implemented so that the
> output from a subprocess is only read if Emacs is idle.  This means that
> if you are a very fast typist, or if you invoke a command that takes a
> long time to finish, you can almost block the compiler messages from being
> displayed in the compilation buffer.  And yet when I use these Emacs
> facilities on Unix, I hardly see any slow-down. 
> 
> So I don't think speed is so much important in this case.

But you are overlooking some very important fact: pipes are fast in 
UNIX the methode I tried to comunicate 2 programs could be *very* 
slow for small transfers.
But if you want to implement it is ok ;-)

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