[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lispref/processes.texi

[Kim F . Storm]

Index: emacs/lispref/processes.texi
diff -c emacs/lispref/processes.texi:1.48 emacs/lispref/processes.texi:1.49
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  can arrive before you finish, if the code in between does not call any
  primitive that waits.
  
+ @defvar process-adaptive-read-buffering
+ On some systems, when Emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
+ output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in
+ very poor performance.  This behaviour can be remedied to some extent
+ by setting the variable @var{process-adaptive-read-buffering} to a
+ non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading
+ from such processes, thus allowing them to produce more output before
+ Emacs tries to read it.
+ @end defvar
+ 
    It is impossible to separate the standard output and standard error
  streams of the subprocess, because Emacs normally spawns the subprocess
  inside a pseudo-TTY, and a pseudo-TTY has only one output channel.  If