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31.0.50; Performance issue in dired+isearch with dired-isearch-filenames

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 78520 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, spacibba <at> aol.com
Subject: bug#78520: 31.0.50; Performance issue in dired+isearch with dired-isearch-filenames
Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 09:35:29 +0300

>> Thanks.  I guess this means users of this feature will have to live
>> with the slowdown.
>
> Probably.  We could, of course, try to improve things a bit.
>
> I don't recall all cases where this slow kind of doing things is
> necessary.  Do you, Juri?
>
> Maybe it would be possible to use a faster, but equivalent, algorithm
> when possible, e.g. whenever using a non-regexp filename search.  I have
> been experimenting with this approach locally, but I don't know if I'm
> breaking any use cases.  It might be worth trying at least - the
> performance in large buffers can be a pain.

Unfortunately, I don't remember if this slower implementation is
required for non-regexp case.  Maybe let's revert it for non-regexp.

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