Re: [feature/internal-msys] thoughts of a more function windows package

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:42:13 -0500
> Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>  Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>,
>  EMACS development team <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > Tangent, but: you might be interested in fd-find, which is an
> > implementation of  (paraphrasing here) about 80% of find that's usually
> > several times faster.
> 
> Any hint *why* it's faster?

It uses several threads, and uses PCRE instead of fnmatch.  The latter
is a subtle difference from what Find does, and it explains the
different results of the search.