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30.0.50; project-files + project-find-file is slow in large repositories

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Message #16 received at 69188 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>, 69188 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#69188: 30.0.50; project-files + project-find-file is slow in
 large repositories
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 02:48:44 +0300

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On 13/04/2024 05:34, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> Both options are relatively clunky, and the second one might also fail 
> to work when DIRS is non-nil (or would have to fall back to absolute 
> names anyway), so I'm leaning toward the first one. It might also allow 
> certain code to be written supporting both relative and absolute names 
> (e.g. a process call both binds default-directory to root and keeps the 
> file names as-is -- the relative ones would be interpreted as such, the 
> rest just as they are interpreted now).

Here's how that change can look.

The patch should demonstrate both the performance improvements for 
project-find-file and project-find-regexp, and some awkwardness in the 
implementation, chiefly due to backward compatibility.

Guess more tests will be required, at the very least.

[project-files-relative-names.diff (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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