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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?

  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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