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

From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 09:42:45 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> The only callback paradigm I know of in Emacs is something like process
>> sentinels. Do you have something else in mind?
>
> Think about an API that is passed a function, and calls that function
> when appropriate, to perform caller-defined processing of the stuff
> generated by the API's implementation.  That function is what I
> referred to as "callback".

But what is the strategy that should be used to call the CALLBACK?
You clearly had something other than "call as soon as we got another
file name" in mind.

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