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

[AlFire]

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.


Andy