Re: dired and ls

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: John Wiegley <address@hidden>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:21:37 -0800
> 
> >>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > One reason why ls-lisp might be slower is that it performs quite a bit of
> > processing after reading the directory, and that processing is faster in C
> > than in Lisp. But it could be faster in insignificant ways.
> 
> There's also em-ls (eshell's implementation of ls in Lisp). I wonder how it
> compares to ls-lisp on this performance point.

em-ls is about 6 times slower than ls-lisp.