GNU bug report logs - #5833
23.1.94; Opening files on network shares on w32 is slow

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 21:36:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> f2s.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#5833: 23.1.94; Opening files on network shares on w32 is slow
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:46:21 -0400

>>>> (setq locate-dominating-stop-dir-regexp "")
>>> That maybe shaves off half a second.
>> Hmm... odd.  That seemed like a pretty good guess
>> (locate-dominating-file tends to suffer from such performance problems
>> in some cases, and vc-handled-backends is one user of this function,
>> and dir-locals is another, so setting locate-dominating-stop-dir-regexp
>> should really kill it off).
> I think it odd that it shaved time off rather than made things much worse.

The "" regexp always matches, so it will cause locate-dominating-file to
stop at the first occasion.


        Stefan
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