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

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; wrote: OK, dired's definitely much faster with error checking turned off. ;-) However, I still hope the dired patch will be accepted by the dired maintainers, because it would allow fast direds even with error checking turned on. Here's a sample result from a 200MHz PPro, NT 4.0sp3, dired of "c:/winnt/system32": ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Function Name Ticks %/Total Call Count ==================================== ===== ======= ========== (in garbage collection) 534 19.940 re-search-forward 508 18.969 3718 set-extent-property 248 9.261 32241 mswindows-insert-directory 212 7.916 2 make-extent 187 6.983 9770 dired-activate-permissions 169 6.311 8793 dired-make-permissions-interactive 109 4.070 978 looking-at 107 3.996 6604 dired-insert-set-properties 82 3.062 1 check-menu-syntax 73 2.726 280 indent-to 72 2.689 978 dired-set-text-properties 68 2.539 977 set-extent-face 66 2.465 9770 dired-manual-move-to-end-of-filename 64 2.390 977 indent-rigidly 52 1.942 1 dired-manual-move-to-filename 48 1.792 978 current-indentation 20 0.747 978 dired-insert-headerline 18 0.672 1 string-match 13 0.485 285 vectorp 8 0.299 1912 keywordp 2 0.075 1089 normalize-menu-item-name 2 0.075 179 copy-sequence 2 0.075 12 file-attributes 2 0.075 2 redisplay-echo-area 2 0.075 2 search-forward 2 0.075 1 selected-frame 2 0.075 5 nsubstitute 2 0.075 2 map-extents 2 0.075 5 #<compiled-function (extent maparg) "...(8)" [extent-property extent dired-file-name] 3> 2 0.075 20 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2678 100.00 One tick = 1 ms ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hmmm. I'll have to check to find out why `mswindows-insert-directory' is being called twice. -- Darryl Okahata Internet: darrylo(a)sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day.