Re: [slime-devel] patchlets on buffering.

Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:42:11 +0100 From: "Mario S. Mommer" mmommer@common-lisp.net

By default, the connection between the lisp and the slime repl is buffered. I would like to propose to have it unbuffered. on the grounds that if the user has a (format t ...), he/she probably wants the message to appear immediately on the screen :-)

Wouldn't it be best for the Swank evaluation RPCs to force the output themselves? This is just as simple to implement, doesn't introduce potential performance problems of unbuffered I/O, and solves the problem more clearly where it is occurring. (This is what I do in SLIME48.)