bug#64735: 29.0.92; find invocations are ~15x slower because of ignores

[Ihor Radchenko]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Tramp is just a stupid library, w/o own intelligence. It offers
> alternative implementations for the set of primitive operations listed in
> (info "(elisp) Magic File Names")

This makes me wonder we can simply add a "find" file handler that will
use find as necessary when GNU find executable is available.

>> GNU find is faster simply because it is running on remote machine itself.
>> But AFAIU, if TRAMP could convert repetitive network request for each
>> directory into a single request, it would speed things up significantly.
>
> If you want something like this, you must add directory-files-recursively
> to that list of primitive operations.

So, it is doable, and not difficult. Good to know.

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