Re: Slow stat (was Startup speed: Still too many stats?)

Darryl Okahata <darrylo(a)sr.hp.com&gt; writes: Please, please do. For me, the error-checkingless rebuild blasted `indent-region' totally out of the profile trace. At the time, I spent an hour tracing the `indent-region' slowness by various unholy means (including but not limited to rewriting several `indent.el' functions to C), and finally traced it to the code that simply inserts the characters into the buffer. The reason why this code was slow was that, when building with ERROR_CHECK_EXTENTS, adjusting the extents appears to cause sledgehammer extent checks, which grind things to a halt. For this reason, the profiling code now prints a message that warns you of likely nonsensical result with error-checking builds. The worst thing is: not only are the results nonsensical, but they get you on the totally wrong track! It's only fortunate that you listened to your intuition rather than the profiler output, and wrote the dired-in-C simulation for Windows. Quite possible, sorry. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- I luv the smell of nature in the morning. Smells like manure!