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28.0.50; slow shell output

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From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50; slow shell output
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 11:47:35 +0100

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When running

curl -L -H "Accept: text/html" http://dbpedia.org/resource/Earth

output stops at several times.
It fontifies parts of the output - fontification is gone when finished. 
See attachments for freezes during output

No delay in system bash BTW.

In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5, 
cairo version 1.14.0)
 of 2020-06-10
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Message #8 received at 44464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 44464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44464: 28.0.50; slow shell output
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:55:14 +0000

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de> writes:

> When running
>
> curl -L -H "Accept: text/html" http://dbpedia.org/resource/Earth
>
> output stops at several times.

Isn't this just because of long lines in the output?
This is a well-known performance pitfall in Emacs.

-- 
Basil

Message #11 received at 44464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>,
 Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 44464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44464: 28.0.50; slow shell output
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 02:54:17 +1300

On 5/11/20 11:55 pm, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de> writes:
>> When running
>> curl -L -H "Accept: text/html" http://dbpedia.org/resource/Earth
>> output stops at several times.
> 
> Isn't this just because of long lines in the output?
> This is a well-known performance pitfall in Emacs.

I can reproduce the issue (in 27.1), and it seems to me that it's
all about that one paragraph of right-to-left text.

If I disable `bidi-display-reordering', I see no slow-downs.

Eli, I note that setting `bidi-paragraph-direction' in the buffer
(with bidi-display-reordering enabled) does not seem to have any
obvious effect.  Setting it to `left-to-right', I still see
right-to-left movement through that portion of the text, and the
associated slowness.  Is that expected?

I'll add that the line in question is not *especially* long
(2374 characters); however it does seem to be a significant factor,
as enabling longlines-mode eliminates the slowness around that text.


-Phil

Message #14 received at 44464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
Cc: contovob <at> tcd.ie, andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de, 44464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44464: 28.0.50; slow shell output
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 16:22:30 +0200

> Cc: 44464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 02:54:17 +1300
> 
> I can reproduce the issue (in 27.1), and it seems to me that it's
> all about that one paragraph of right-to-left text.
> 
> If I disable `bidi-display-reordering', I see no slow-downs.

I don't see any particularly bad slowdown at all, but maybe I didn't
make all the steps (I don't have 'curl').  Do you see the same
slowdown if you fetch the URL with, say, WGET, and then visit it in
Emacs?  If not, how to reproduce this without 'curl'?

> Eli, I note that setting `bidi-paragraph-direction' in the buffer
> (with bidi-display-reordering enabled) does not seem to have any
> obvious effect.

It normally doesn't.  Only some very special files can benefit from
setting bidi-paragraph-direction non-nil.

> Setting it to `left-to-right', I still see right-to-left movement
> through that portion of the text, and the associated slowness.  Is
> that expected?

Yes.  Paragraph direction doesn't disable reordering, it just
determines whether the text will start at the left or the right edge
of the window.

> I'll add that the line in question is not *especially* long
> (2374 characters); however it does seem to be a significant factor,
> as enabling longlines-mode eliminates the slowness around that text.

I might be able to say something intelligent about this if I have a
recipe for reproducing the slowdown, and have some quantitative idea
of the slowdown (how much time does it take for Emacs to respond to
some specific command).

Thanks.

Message #17 received at 44464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>, andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de,
 44464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44464: 28.0.50; slow shell output
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:41:07 +0000

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

>> Cc: 44464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
>> From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
>> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 02:54:17 +1300
>> 
>> I can reproduce the issue (in 27.1), and it seems to me that it's
>> all about that one paragraph of right-to-left text.
>> 
>> If I disable `bidi-display-reordering', I see no slow-downs.
>
> I don't see any particularly bad slowdown at all, but maybe I didn't
> make all the steps (I don't have 'curl').  Do you see the same
> slowdown if you fetch the URL with, say, WGET, and then visit it in
> Emacs?  If not, how to reproduce this without 'curl'?

0. emacs -Q
1. M-x shell RET
2. C-x 1
3. wget -O- http://dbpedia.org/resource/Earth
4. RET

The printing to *shell* happens at a speed that I'm accustomed to in
Emacs shell emulators, but there's a noticeable pause for a fraction of
a second at a couple of lines, one of which contains Arabic script.

While printing, the last line is also highlighted in blue, i.e. with the
comint-highlight-prompt face.  You can also see this with e.g.

  $ while :; do printf hi; sleep 1; done

-- 
Basil

In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.16.0, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2020-11-05 built on thunk
Repository revision: 771046f5d888c703c875d8629fdf227429a36d3d
Repository branch: master
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Message #20 received at 44464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: psainty <at> orcon.net.nz, andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de, 44464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44464: 28.0.50; slow shell output
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 17:54:23 +0200

> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
> Cc: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>,  andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de,
>   44464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:41:07 +0000
> 
> 0. emacs -Q
> 1. M-x shell RET
> 2. C-x 1
> 3. wget -O- http://dbpedia.org/resource/Earth
> 4. RET

Thanks.  Looks like a regression between Emacs 26.3 and 27.1.  And
it's somehow related to auto-composition-mode, because turning that
off makes Emacs fast again.

Bisections welcome.

> While printing, the last line is also highlighted in blue, i.e. with the
> comint-highlight-prompt face.

I think this is part normal, as the last portion of display in shell
mode is always highlighted like that.

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