Re: dired and ls

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> One reason why ls-lisp might be slower is that it performs quite a bit of
> processing after reading the directory, and that processing is faster in C
> than in Lisp. But it could be faster in insignificant ways.

There's also em-ls (eshell's implementation of ls in Lisp). I wonder how it
compares to ls-lisp on this performance point.

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