From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
drew.adams@oracle.com, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal
Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 21:38:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h9ehmxnw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160501182438.GB95345@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (message from Alan Third on Sun, 1 May 2016 19:24:38 +0100)
> Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 19:24:38 +0100
> From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
> jwiegley@gmail.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> I semi-regularly list large directories on remote Windows shares and
> Emacs's built-in ls is so slow as to be useless. I have to use a
> Windows native version of ls that someone's written. If that
> capability was removed I'd hope that some work was done on Emacs
> performance.
For remote (i.e. networked) volumes, there's nothing that can be done
to speed that up. Network volumes are slow, period. Your native 'ls'
simply shortcuts and thuis fails to retrieve some attributes Emacs
doesn't, that's all. TANSTAAFL.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-01 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-30 23:38 A Modest Proposal Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-30 23:50 ` raman
2016-05-01 0:14 ` John Wiegley
2016-05-01 2:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-01 13:30 ` John Wiegley
2016-05-01 14:44 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-01 15:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-01 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-01 15:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-01 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-01 18:24 ` Alan Third
2016-05-01 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-05-04 3:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-04 4:29 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-04 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 10:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-04 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-01 19:21 ` Michael Albinus
2016-05-04 3:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-04 8:51 ` Andy Moreton
2016-05-04 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 22:13 ` Andy Moreton
2016-05-05 7:58 ` Michael Albinus
2016-05-01 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<834mahollh.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-05-01 16:46 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-01 15:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-01 15:21 ` joakim
2016-05-01 23:02 ` Richard Stallman
2016-05-01 23:54 ` raman
2016-07-06 14:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
[not found] <<874mai4qhz.fsf@gnus.org>
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