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Making TRAMP faster

I recently changed jobs and found myself in a position where I would need to do a lot of work over TRAMP. I had used TRAMP before and it tended to be slow. Since I would be using it all day now I figured I should take some time to make it faster. TRAMP is great TRAMP really is an amazing piece of technology. It supports a huge number of protocols and for the most part, it lets you pretend that you are working with on a local system.

It supports a huge number of protocols and for the most part, it lets you pretend that you are working with on a local system. Out-of-band will use external methods like rsync or scp, while inline will send compressed base64 encoded text over the SSH session and then decode it on the other side. Another alternative is lsp-bridge, but I was not able to test it because it requires the remote python to be built with FFI support, which my server does not have.

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