From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is it possible to run rgrep in emacs on Win32? Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:42:34 +0300 Message-ID: <83d37b34vp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83iph547tc.fsf@gnu.org> <83sjg73k5p.fsf@gnu.org> <4F8823E8.60804@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334339096 24382 80.91.229.3 (13 Apr 2012 17:44:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:44:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 13 19:44:55 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SIkYJ-0000RR-Da for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:44:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34624 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SIkYI-0002uT-J7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:44:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45443) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SIkYD-0002uN-G9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:44:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SIkYB-0000Sv-PN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:44:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:57109) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SIkYB-0000Rg-H7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:44:47 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M2F00300IKZZD00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:44:35 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.57.204]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M2F003Y4IM9CWI0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:44:35 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4F8823E8.60804@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84456 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:02:32 +0400 > From: Evgeniy Dolzhenko > > Since my comment about this setup being dog slow went unnoticed I'd like > to reiterate find+xargs+grep are really slow on Windows on just > moderately large projects It is only slow if you use the GnuWin32 port of GNU Find. (They used a version of `readdir' which traded a marginal feature for abysmally slow performance.) That was the original reason why I made my own port, which is between 4 and 10 times faster. Give it a try.