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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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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 20:46:19 +0300

On 23/07/2023 14:18, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 13:46:30 +0300
>> Cc:luangruo <at> yahoo.com,sbaugh <at> janestreet.com,yantar92 <at> posteo.net,
>>   64735 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Dmitry Gutov<dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
>>
>> On 23/07/2023 08:11, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Even better: compute completion-regexp-list so that IGNOREs are
>>> filtered by file-name-all-completions in the first place.
>> We don't have lookahead in Emacs regexps, so I'm not sure it's possible
>> to construct regexp that says "don't match entries A, B and C".
> Well, maybe just having a way of telling file-name-all-completions to
> negate the sense of completion-regexp-list would be enough to make
> that happen?

Some way to do that is certainly possible (e.g. a new option and 
corresponding code, maybe; maybe not), it's just that the person 
implementing it should consider the performance of the resulting solution.

And, ideally, do all the relevant benchmarking when proposing the change.

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