Subject: Re: bug#50733: 28.0.1; project-find-regexp can block Emacs for a long time

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 19:22:01 +0300

On 24.09.2021 19:18, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc:[email-masked],[email-masked]
>> From: Dmitry Gutov<[email-masked]>
>> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:50:20 +0300
>>
>> FWIW, (project-find-regexp "O_CREAT") takes about 130ms here.
> "gid O_CREAT" takes 46 msec, and that's on MS-Windows.
> 
> Do we really need to keep this silly argument?  Every tool has its
> advantages and disadvantages.  When used correctly, you will have only
> the advantages and none of the disadvantages.

I'm not sure we're arguing.

That was my point: it's good to be able to 'M-x project-find-regexp' 
without a pre-generated index. But make use of it in 
'xref-find-references' when the user has made such an index.