Re: slow find-file for network file systems and very deep directories

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: AlFire <spamgrinder.trylater@ggmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:19:42 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Can you compare the time it takes to visit the file when you type "C-x
> > C-f" with what happens when you type this instead:
> > 
> >    M-: (find-file "W:\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5\dir6\dir7\dir8\dir9\dirA\dirB\dirC\file.c") RET
> 
> 
> still the same
> 
> 
> > Also, do you happen to know if this was significantly faster in
> > previous Emacs versions?
> 
> this:
>      GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2004-03-10 on NYAUMO
> 
> works much faster then this:
>      GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-03-26 on RELEASE
> 
> 
> I chacked the number is file ops (using filemon again) and the number is 
> down to 130 from 800something.

Thanks.  Please move this discussion to emacs-devel@gnu.org, and
please post there, along with the description of the problem, the
traces of file ops in Emacs 21.3 and in 22.2.  If you can upgrade to
Emacs 22.3, which was just released, please try this in there as well.