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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 13:20:45 +0300

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

It could be "call as soon as we got 100 file names", for example.  The
number can even be a separate parameter passed to the API.