Re: How to speed up comint for large outputs?

Michael Heerdegen <[email protected]> Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:46:43 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Jae Juang" <[email protected]> writes:

> I frequently make use of comint and SQL. When exploring databases, one
> occasionally stumbles into unexpectedly large datasets. and this slows
> emacs into molasses. How do people deal with this? Emacs itself has no
> issue with large files; is there some method to have emacs batch the
> comint outputs before displaying them, and presumably dying in
> fontlock?

Have you tried to use profiler.el to find out what exactly slows down Emacs that
badly?

Michael.