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31.0.50; Abolishing etags-regen-file-extensions

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Message #65 received at 73484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
Cc: 73484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name
Subject: Re: bug#73484: 31.0.50; Abolishing etags-regen-file-extensions
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 18:27:08 +0300

> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 17:29:44 +0300
> Cc: spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name, 73484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
> 
> On 05/10/2024 10:02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > How hard is it to add to a live TAGS file fake lines which look like
> > this:
> > 
> >    ^L
> >    foo,0
> > 
> > (with random strings instead of "foo"), and then time some TAGS-using
> > commands with and without these additions?
> 
> Okay, done that.
> 
> 'M-.' takes more or less the same.
> 
> The file size of TAGS increased from 66 MB to 85 MiB.
> 
> Won't measure time to generate now - because the current method and the 
> "real" one will be different, but note that it's more relevant with 
> etags-regen-mode because the scan is performed lazily: every time the 
> user does the first search in a new project.

Thanks.  What about the time it takes tags-search to show the prompt:
is that affected in any way?

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