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

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Message #206 received at 64735 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>, 64735 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#64735: 29.0.92; find invocations are ~15x slower because of
 ignores
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:31:37 -0400

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net> writes:
> Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com> writes:
>
>>> Sure. It might also be optimized. Without trying to convince find devs
>>> to do something about regexp handling.
>>
>> Not to derail too much, but find as a subprocess has one substantial
>> advantage over find in Lisp: It can run in parallel with Emacs, so that
>> we actually use multiple CPU cores.
>
> Does find use multiple CPU cores?

Not on its own, but when it's running as a separate subprocess of Emacs,
that subprocess can (and will, on modern core-rich hardware) run on a
different CPU core from Emacs itself.  That's a form of parallelism
which is very achievable for Emacs, and provides a big performance win.

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