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project-find-regexp blocks the UI

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Message #14 received at 26710 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Hariharan Rangasamy <hariharanrangasamy <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 26710 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#26710: Fwd: 25.2; project-find-regexp makes emacs use 100% cpu
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 09:43:22 +0530

When the search is in progress, I'm unable to use emacs.
Emacs doesn't respond to any action until the search is over.

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
>> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 20:00:35 +0300
>>
>> On 29.04.2017 11:55, Hariharan Rangasamy wrote:
>> > using project-find-regexp to find text in a folder makes emacs use 100%
>> > CPU
>>
>> Why is that a problem?
>
> Indeed: CPU-intensive processing will always make one execution unit
> 100% busy, as long as the processing goes on.  This is normal.

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