Subject: Re: bug#64735: 29.0.92; find invocations are ~15x slower because of ignores

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 22:39:41 -0400

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Since people are making a lot of headway on optimizing this
in Emacs, I won't trouble the Find maintainers for now.

I wonder if it is possible to detect many cases in which
the file-name handlers won't actually do anything, and bind
file-name-hander-list to nil for those.

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