bug#71094: [PATCH] Prefer to run find and grep in parallel in rgrep

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 23/05/2024 07:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Manuel Giraud<manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
> > Cc:dmitry@gutov.dev,sbaugh@janestreet.com,71094@debbugs.gnu.org,
> >    rgm@gnu.org
> > Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 21:15:02 +0200
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii<eliz@gnu.org>  writes:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Thanks, but we need the timings of the corresponding Emacs commands,
> > > not the commands run from the shell prompt.
> > Ok.  What are those commands and how to timed them?
> It's rgrep, AFAIU, according to the original report in this bug's
> discussion.  Dmitry, would you please show Manual the commands you
> were running in your benchmarks?

1. Visit a directory with a fair number of files.
2. M-x rgrep, enter some odd regexp like "asdfasf@!#!" and "*" for the 
files wildcard.
3. Perform the search. Look at the end of the *grep* output, it will say 
something like "duration: 4.52 s". Note the number.

And you could repeat the same after applying the patch, recompiling 
Emacs (or at least grep.el) and restarting.

Preferably do the scenario 2-3 times to ensure that the filesystem cache 
is warm, and cold file access speed doesn't skew the numbers.