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

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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: dmitry <at> gutov.dev, 64735 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, sbaugh <at> janestreet.com
Subject: Re: bug#64735: 29.0.92; find invocations are ~15x slower because of
 ignores
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:36:28 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> I am pretty sure that Emacs's native file routines can be optimized to
>> the level of find.
>
> Maybe it can be improved, but not to the same level as Find, because
> consing Lisp strings, something that Find doesn't do, does have its
> overhead.

I am not sure if this specific issue is important.
If we want to use find from Emacs, we would need to create Emacs
string/strings when reading the output of find anyway.

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