Re: slow find-file for network file systems and very deep directories

[AlFire <spamgrinder.trylater@ggmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: AlFire <spamgrinder.trylater@ggmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:19:42 -0700
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>>> Can you compare the time it takes to visit the file when you type "C-x
>>> C-f" with what happens when you type this instead:
>>>
>>>    M-: (find-file "W:\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5\dir6\dir7\dir8\dir9\dirA\dirB\dirC\file.c") RET
>>
>> still the same
>>
>>
>>> Also, do you happen to know if this was significantly faster in
>>> previous Emacs versions?
>> this:
>>      GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2004-03-10 on NYAUMO
>>
>> works much faster then this:
>>      GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-03-26 on RELEASE
>>
>>
>> I chacked the number is file ops (using filemon again) and the number is 
>> down to 130 from 800something.
> 
> Thanks.  Please move this discussion to emacs-devel@gnu.org, and
> please post there, along with the description of the problem, the
> traces of file ops in Emacs 21.3 and in 22.2.  If you can upgrade to
> Emacs 22.3, which was just released, please try this in there as well.
> 
> 

I loaded 22.3 and did not see that big difference. 21.3 is still 
lightning fast. Sending the info to the mailing list.

Thx, A.