From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Emacs needs truely useful flex matching
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:18:53 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5dfheci.fsf@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a9pv6dwf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:24:00 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:00:14 +0800
>> From: Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> > Indeed when searching for a file in a file hierarchy, you'd need
>> > a pre-built list of files, otherwise the time taken to find the files
>> > would dwarf the flex-matching time in any case.
>>
>> "git ls-files" is very fast on a solid state drive, and the list can
>> also be cached.
>
> Compare "git ls-files" with "ls -R" (time-wise and also look at the
> disk activity LED, if you have one) on the same directory and machine,
> and you will see that git does not actually look at the filesystem to
> find the files.
Sure, and that means that caching the list of files a in directory tree
is a somewhat solved issue. Whereas the kind of magical flex matching Le
is describing, isn't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-22 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-21 15:02 Emacs needs truely useful flex matching Le Wang
2013-03-21 17:49 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-03-21 23:34 ` Le Wang
2013-03-21 23:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-22 1:00 ` Le Wang
2013-03-22 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-22 11:18 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2013-04-14 16:48 ` Le Wang
2013-04-14 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-15 0:14 ` Le Wang
2013-04-15 13:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-22 2:36 ` Richard Stallman
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