From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why does not rgrep use "grep -r"?
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:45:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <472BD29F.5090205@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d4us6rnl.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
Miles Bader wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Probably because find has been optimized for, umm, finding files. There
>>> are quite a few things you can do to speed up directory traversal.
>> I guess it also depends on what kind of OS you are using, is process
>> creation cheap or not.
>
> Neither method should use many processes unless the command-line
> arg limit is very short (though on windows, maybe that's the case...).
>
> -Miles
I believed that grep had to be started many times. Is not that the case?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-03 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-02 21:42 Why does not rgrep use "grep -r"? Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-02 22:44 ` Miles Bader
2007-11-02 23:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-02 23:56 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-03 1:31 ` Miles Bader
2007-11-03 1:45 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-11-03 3:37 ` Miles Bader
2007-11-03 8:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-03 9:43 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-03 11:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-03 11:54 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-04 18:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-05 5:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-03 4:01 ` Ken Raeburn
2007-11-03 8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-03 8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-03 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-04 0:57 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-11-04 1:03 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-04 1:15 ` Miles Bader
2007-11-04 10:32 ` Jason Rumney
2007-11-04 11:32 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-04 11:48 ` Jason Rumney
2007-11-04 12:01 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-05 5:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-12 1:56 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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