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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enhancement for file-attributes
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:31:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8vbq6zab.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831uhicprf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:59:00 +0200")

>> In how many places would we save the file-chase-links all?  Are
>> these places important?
> One place is in files.el: after-find-file, when we visit a file that
> is a symlink, and backup-buffer.  These are quite frequently used APIs.

So you're saying it's important because it can impose
a noticeable overhead in those cases?  Do we have actual numbers?
It seems that both operations do so many other things that it might be
lost in the noise.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-01 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-30 14:26 Enhancement for file-attributes Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-30 21:14 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-30 22:08   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-01  0:45   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-01  2:08     ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-08 10:36       ` Michael Albinus
2012-10-01  1:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-01  2:04   ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-10-01 12:59   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-01 14:31     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-10-01 14:56       ` Eli Zaretskii

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