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Re: Emacs needs truely useful flex matching


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Emacs needs truely useful flex matching
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:24:00 +0200

> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:00:14 +0800
> From: Le Wang <address@hidden>
> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> > Indeed when searching for a file in a file hierarchy, you'd need
> > a pre-built list of files, otherwise the time taken to find the files
> > would dwarf the flex-matching time in any case.
> 
> "git ls-files" is very fast on a solid state drive, and the list can
> also be cached.

Compare "git ls-files" with "ls -R" (time-wise and also look at the
disk activity LED, if you have one) on the same directory and machine,
and you will see that git does not actually look at the filesystem to
find the files.




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