From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enhancement for file-attributes Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:31:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83a9w7egdd.fsf@gnu.org> <831uhicprf.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349101951 30714 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2012 14:32:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 14:32:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 01 16:32:33 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1TIh2q-0005Mb-MJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:32:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36222 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIh2k-00074V-TO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:32:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:32847) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIh2d-000744-Dj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:32:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIh2X-0002e5-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:32:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:2206) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIh2N-0002XO-Uo; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:32:00 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09FxLT4/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIHAW6CYsKhToDkUCRc4FYgwU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="200375688" Original-Received: from 69-196-180-248.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO fmsmemgm.homelinux.net) ([69.196.180.248]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 01 Oct 2012 10:31:59 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E5FF8AE1FB; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 10:31:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <831uhicprf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:59:00 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153827 Archived-At: >> 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