Re: Expensiveness of searching load-path

Some time ago, Martin Buchholz wrote... |+ | My XEmacs packages are installed on a Linux machine. | Those packages are used from both Linux and from Solaris. | The Linux NFS server is notoriously slow. | Each find-file of a C source file on Solaris was annoyingly slow. | I tracked it down to this ancient code in one of my cc-mode hooks: | | (ignore-errors (require 'cc-lobotomy) ...) | | There is no such .el file on my load-path, so a full load-path search | was performed for every find-file. I think that Fload may be hacked so it caches misses. If the cache is flushed on every redisplay, this is pretty safe, but would greatly help avoid problems like this. Maybe flushing may be done even more intelligently. At all, stats on NFS are known to be very expensive. XEmacs probably needs some general filesystem caching mechanism. Kirill