From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:10:29 +0200 Message-ID: References: <831vlut4sy.fsf@gnu.org> <83ws3mrm6f.fsf@gnu.org> <833a67shhs.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254175855 24074 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2009 22:10:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:10:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 29 00:10:48 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MsOQh-0007mD-9O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:10:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56908 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsOQg-00021S-Mz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:10:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsOQc-00021K-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:10:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsOQX-00020A-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:10:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44551 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsOQX-000207-He for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:10:37 -0400 Original-Received: from proxy1.bredband.net ([195.54.101.71]:47728) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MsOQU-0002SQ-NS; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:10:34 -0400 Original-Received: from iph1.telenor.se (195.54.127.132) by proxy1.bredband.net (7.3.140.3) id 49F5A15203CFEEC8; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:10:31 +0200 X-SMTPAUTH-B2: joakvero X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av9WAFPRwEpT44qWPGdsb2JhbACafgEBAQE3vAmEHgU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,468,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="49650816" Original-Received: from ua-83-227-138-150.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO exodia) ([83.227.138.150]) by iph1.telenor.se with ESMTP; 29 Sep 2009 00:10:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (DIR-655.lan [192.168.200.113]) (authenticated bits=0) by exodia (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n8SMATwl016449 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:10:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:58:41 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:115747 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > > Omitting this directory speeds up searches for other files. > > This might have been a good reason back when term/ was the only > subdirectory in lisp/ (Emacs 19.x). But nowadays we have 21 > subdirectories besides term/ (and soon we will have 5 more). Does a > single directory really make a difference? > > It makes some difference; why make even a small slowdown > for all the users just for a small simplification? > > Perhaps it would be useful to design some other way to > speed up the search for files. I havent thought this through very well, but I would be interested in a mechanism that speeds up searching for files, as well as dealing with various file names issues, for embedded devices. I was thinking this could be done with some kind of lisp reader that consults and index file and reads the elisp files from an archive(like a tar file). > -- Joakim Verona