Re: Enhancement for file-attributes

[Stefan Monnier]

>> In how many places would we save the file-chase-links all?  Are
>> these places important?
> One place is in files.el: after-find-file, when we visit a file that
> is a symlink, and backup-buffer.  These are quite frequently used APIs.

So you're saying it's important because it can impose
a noticeable overhead in those cases?  Do we have actual numbers?
It seems that both operations do so many other things that it might be
lost in the noise.


        Stefan