GNU bug report logs - #66117
30.0.50; `find-buffer-visiting' is slow when opening large number of buffers

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
Cc: dmitry <at> gutov.dev, 66117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66117: 30.0.50; `find-buffer-visiting' is slow when opening large number of buffers
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2023 14:24:02 +0300

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
> Cc: dmitry <at> gutov.dev, 66117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2023 11:08:10 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > So in C this is:
> >
> >   list2 (INT_TO_INTEGER (s.st_ino), INT_TO_INTEGER (s.st_dev));
> 
> But how to get `s'? Do you mean that we should re-run `sys_fstat' on
> every buffer? That's slow (query to FS), isn't it?

No, it's very fast, at least on Posix hosts.  But if we decide it
isn't fast enough, we can record that in the buffer when the file is
visited.

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