Re: dired too SLOW

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Helen Iwahiro <wesbld@roadkill.rose.hp.com>
> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:53:20 -0800 (PST)
> 
> dired is a LOT slower in this version to list a new directory

Could you please post details: how much time, in seconds, did it take
in the previous version (what version was that, btw?), and how long
does it take now?  Also, how many files are in the directory?

> make whatever was done differently an option

I don't think there were any significant additions in Dired, except
that the display engine was rewritten in Emacs 21.1.  The display code
cannot be made optional, for obvious reasons.  However, its speed is
not very different from that of the old display code, on the average.