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29.0.92; find invocations are ~15x slower because of ignores

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
Cc: sbaugh <at> janestreet.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 64735 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64735: 29.0.92; find invocations are ~15x slower because of ignores
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 16:00:46 +0300

On 21/07/2023 15:58, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov<dmitry <at> gutov.dev>  writes:
> 
>>>> Disabling file-handlers is inconceivable in Emacs.
>>> Indeed. But we are talking about Emacs find vs. GNU find here.
>>> In the scenarios where GNU find can be used, it is also safe to disable
>>> file handlers, AFAIU.
>> GNU find can be used on a remote machine. In all the same cases as when
>> it can be used on the local one.
> But GNU find does not take into account Emacs' file-handlers for each
> directory when traversing directories.

Indeed. Such usage always assumes the initial invocation and each 
visited directory belong to the same remote host. Which is usually a 
correct assumption.

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