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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [patch] 21.3 executable.find - Use cache in `executable-find'
Date: 25 Mar 2004 08:49:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ubrmlwhe2.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y8pp51f9.fsf@blue.sea.net> (jari.aalto@poboxes.com)

> From: jari.aalto@poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.linux)
> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:24:10 +0200
> 
> | Any measurements to show that this indeed yields significant savings
> | in Emacs?
> 
> No, but just common sense.

My common sense says ``profile before you optimize''.

> I have 50 directories in path and depending
> just where the /bin might be it could take ages to find same programs
> all again.

I'd like to know how long is ``ages''.  With today's caching OSes,
you'd be surprised how fast that could be.

I could be wrong, of course, but only measurements will prove or
disprove that.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-25  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-08 11:37 [patch] 21.3 executable.find - Use cache in `executable-find' Jari Aalto+mail.linux
2004-03-24 11:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <y8pp51f9.fsf@blue.sea.net>
2004-03-25  6:49     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-03-25  9:14       ` Jari Aalto+mail.linux
     [not found] <mailman.2083.1076239601.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-10 21:21 ` Jari Aalto+mail.linux

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