Re: Hideously slow VC status queries fixed

[Eric S. Raymond]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden>:
> The vc-registered -> vc-call-backend edge seems particularly bad.
> But perhaps I'm misreading this, or we knew it, or this profiler is
> giving erroneous results.

Nope, there are structural reasons to think that's a likely hotspot.
I'll see what I can do about eliminating some of those calls.

> BTW, today's VC changes roughly halved the number of calls to
> vc-call-backend, but (according to oelp) the elapsed time hasn't
> changed much.  New profile appended.

Dang, I was hoping for more gain than that.  VC-Dired does seem
visibly snappier though.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>