Re: find-file takes forever on slow network file systems and very deep directories

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > Does anyone have any thoughts on how to avoid such a significant
>> > performance hit (15 sec for a simple `find-file') on Samba volumes, as
>> > opposed to just 2 seconds in Emacs 21.x, which didn't automatically
>> > have `vc-find-file-hook' on the `find-file-hook' list?
>> 
>> > If there's no good cure, we should at least provide a user option to
>> > avoid putting `vc-find-file-hook' on `find-file-hook', or maybe allow
>> > finer-grain control of it, like per filesystem.
>> AFAIK, the same happened under Emacs-21.
> Not with "emacs -Q", AFAICS.

IIRC Emacs-21 only supported CVS, RCS, and SCCS, neither of which needs
to walk up the directory tree, so the behavior was indeed different.


        Stefan