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

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Message #20 received at 66117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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: Re: bug#66117: 30.0.50;
 `find-buffer-visiting' is slow when opening large number of buffers
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:59:13 +0300

> Cc: 66117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:41:01 +0300
> 
> Will it be acceptable to implement the cache using variable watchers?

I don't like us using variable watchers for such stuff.

Why cannot we just cache the correspondence between files and buffers
in some hash-table?

> The regression might happen when the number of buffers is small -
> when hash tables become slower compared to simple list lookup.
> But in such scenario, we will be talking about very small absolute
> runtimes anyway, so it should probably not matter in practice.

Alternatively, only create the hash-table when the number of buffers
exceeds some threshold.

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