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by unhammer 4226 days ago
> Can you give an example of a program that produces too much output for Emacs to keep up with?

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7310770

The thing that's so annoying is that it seems to process data that it really should ignore. It has nothing to do with display at all, it's a pipe.

(I wanted to update that example with using star-prefixed grep and sort since the info manual says that should avoid emacs built-ins, but after five minutes of waiting I gave up.)