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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 13539@debbugs.gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Subject: bug#13539: Use fdopendir, fstatat and readlinkat, for efficiency.
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:24:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mwvqh11t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmwvqblj5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  13539@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:24:06 -0500
> 
> >> perhaps a further optimization would be to avoid the call to
> >> file_name_completion_stat if completion-ignored-extensions is devoid
> >> of elements that end in a slash.
> > Yes, something like that might make sense.
> 
> Maybe.  But maybe not.  The default value of
> completion-ignored-extensions includes elements that end in a slash, and
> I think fairly few uses of try-completion rebind it to something else.

I agree.  It just sounds excessive to invoke lstat/stat _twice_ just
to support this one feature.

Perhaps at least systems that have d_type could avoid one of these 2
calls.  (d_type can easily be added to the Windows emulation.)





      reply	other threads:[~2013-01-30 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-24  8:26 bug#13539: Use fdopendir, fstatat and readlinkat, for efficiency Paul Eggert
2013-01-24 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-28  8:34   ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-28 14:37     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-30  0:56       ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-30 17:27         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-01  6:42           ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-30 19:24         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-30 20:24           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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