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

[AlFire]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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.

I loaded 22.3 and did not see that big difference. 21.3 is still 
lightning fast. Sending the info to the mailing list.

Thx, A.