From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, 2445@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2445: 23.0.90; file name completion GCs a lot
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:40:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8wn36jd5.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1LbcKU-0006gR-TF@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:02:46 -0500")
> When I type C-x C-f xmail/foox TAB, where xmail contains 800 files
> and none of them starts with foox, it takes a few seconds (including
> 3 GCs) before telling me it can't be found.
> Here's output from xbacktrace:
> "file-name-completion" (0x7fbe23e4)
Indeed, the new partial-completion code triggers an inefficiency in
file-name-completion. I've installed a patch which should significantly
reduce the problem (at least in my test case, tho I had to use
a directory with 100K files to reproduce a problem that seems similar to
yours).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-18 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-23 15:02 bug#2445: 23.0.90; file name completion GCs a lot Richard M Stallman
2009-02-25 16:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-26 19:25 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-03-17 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-19 19:37 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-03-19 20:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-20 22:52 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-03-21 1:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-18 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-03-18 22:18 ` Richard M Stallman
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