Re: [slime-devel] Patch to allow local network address family

Gilaras Drakeson gilaras@gmail.com writes:

Hi,

Below is a patch to allow local network address family (aka AF_UNIX, UNIX domain sockets). Note that `open-network-stream' just calls `make-network-process'.

diff --git a/slime.el b/slime.el index 8fc44ce..4afa883 100644 --- a/slime.el +++ b/slime.el @@ -1497,7 +1497,12 @@ first line of the file." (defun slime-net-connect (host port coding-system) "Establish a connection with a CL." (let* ((inhibit-quit nil)

•     (proc (open-network-stream "SLIME Lisp" nil host port))
  

•     (proc (if (and (stringp port) (eq ?/ (string-to-char port)))
  

•    ;; consider a string starting with "/" a local service
  

•    (make-network-process :name "SLIME Lisp" :buffer nil
  

• 			 :service port :family 'local)
  

•  (make-network-process :name "SLIME Lisp" :buffer nil
  

• 		       :host host :service port)))
   (buffer (slime-make-net-buffer " *cl-connection*")))
  

  (push proc slime-net-processes) (set-process-buffer proc buffer)

AF_UNIX is beneficial in the sense that it can speedup communication between emacs and the lisp process

It can, but does it? And is the amount by which it speeds up noticeable?