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

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 22:59:02 -0400

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  > If someone was thinking of doing that, they would be better off
  > responding to RMS's earlier request for C programmers to optimize this
  > behavior in find.

  > Since, after all, if we do it that way it will benefit remote files as
  > well.

I wonder if some different way of specifying what to ignore might make
a faster implementation possible.  Regexps are general but matching
them tends to be slow.  Maybe some less general pattern matching could
be sufficient for these features while faster.

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