GNU bug report logs - #64735
29.0.92; find invocations are ~15x slower because of ignores

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, sbaugh <at> janestreet.com, yantar92 <at> posteo.net, 64735 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64735: 29.0.92; find invocations are ~15x slower because of ignores
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 08:11:03 +0300

> Cc: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>, 64735 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 00:01:28 +0300
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
> 
> On 22/07/2023 09:39, Po Lu wrote:
> > 
> > Programs that use find should fall back to directory-file-recursively
> > when any of the situations above are detected.
> 
> Perhaps if someone implements support for IGNORE entries (wildcards) in 
> that function, it would be easy enough to do that fallback.

Shouldn't be hard, since it already filters some of them:

    (dolist (file (sort (file-name-all-completions "" dir)
                        'string<))
      (unless (member file '("./" "../"))  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Even better: compute completion-regexp-list so that IGNOREs are
filtered by file-name-all-completions in the first place.

Patches welcome.

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