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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | bug#50733: 28.0.1; project-find-regexp can block Emacs for a long time |
Date: | Fri, 24 Sep 2021 09:00:13 +0000 |
Btw, I don't understand why we focus on general-purpose text-searching tools for these features. Why not focus on packages like ID Utils instead, they are so much faster. Daniel, could you time the same search in that large tree when xref-search-program is 'gid'? (You'd need to run 'mkid' first, to create the ID database, but that is one-time, and is very fast.) As I told many times, I think this is the future: program language sensitive tools that use a precomputed DB.
id-tools are useful, but they do not provide the same functionality as grep/ripgrep. On Emacs' trunk, mkid takes a few seconds to create a 12 MB database, and gid Eli returns only 4 occurrences.
This can be improved by using mkid --default-lang=text, but then mkid takes no less than 30 minutes (!) to create a 205 MB database, and gid Eli now returns 25 occurrences in ~1 second.
In comparison, rg Eli returns 6474 occurrences in < 0.1 seconds. Moreover, incremental updates are not implemented in mkid.
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