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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 19:45:38 +0300

> From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:36:28 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Maybe it can be improved, but not to the same level as Find, because
> > consing Lisp strings, something that Find doesn't do, does have its
> > overhead.
> 
> I am not sure if this specific issue is important.
> If we want to use find from Emacs, we would need to create Emacs
> string/strings when reading the output of find anyway.

So how do you explain that using Find is faster than using
find-lisp.el?

I think the answer is that using Find as a subprocess conses less.