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From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@deadspam.com>
Subject: Re: emacs' TAB completions slower than bash's?
Date: 22 Mar 2002 02:09:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r8mdpzbj.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SUN.3.91.1020321084552.5863M-100000@is

>> OK, load up emacs with 20 different buffers, do C-x b TAB
>> The first time one does this, it seems mighty slow.  If one does it
>> again, it is real fast.  Processor: P166.
>> 
>> Ok, now in bash
>> $ bla bla /dev/ttySR<TAB>
>> Display all 512 possibilities? (y or n) y

Eli> Please compare the Bash completion with "C-x C-f TAB", not "C-x b TAB".  
Eli> The latter doesn't work on files, but on buffers, so you are comparing 
Eli> apples with oranges.

I saying that emacs takes much longer to show me a list of 20 things than
bash does for 512 things.  I did not inquire about where those things
come from or are stored.  It would seem that asking emacs about things
in its memory [buffer names] should be faster than having to get
information [file names] from the disk.   However, it seems the
opposite is true.
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-21 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <m24rjgclye.fsf@jidanni.org>
     [not found] ` <7443-Sun17Mar2002063446+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il>
     [not found]   ` <m2bsdjv2s6.fsf@jidanni.org>
2002-03-21  6:48     ` emacs' TAB completions slower than bash's? Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-21 18:09       ` Dan Jacobson [this message]
2002-03-28  8:38         ` Dan Jacobson

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