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

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From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: dmitry <at> gutov.dev, yantar92 <at> posteo.net,
 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>,
 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 15:33:13 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
>> Cc: yantar92 <at> posteo.net,  dmitry <at> gutov.dev,  64735 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>>   sbaugh <at> janestreet.com
>> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:55:22 +0200
>> 
>> I'm open for any proposal in solving the performance problems. But since
>> I'm living in the file name handler world for many years, I might not be
>> the best source for new ideas.
>
> The first idea that comes to mind is to reimplement
> directory-files-recursively in C, modeled on how Find does that.

If someone was thinking of doing that, they would be better off
responding to RMS's earlier request for C programmers to optimize this
behavior in find.

Since, after all, if we do it that way it will benefit remote files as
well.

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