Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windowsmapped drive

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>,
>         <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:09:07 -0700
> 
> You're arguing against a single predicate.

That part was aimed at Stefan, not at you.

> My understanding from the beginning has been that accessing files on a network
> drive is generally faster than accessing the remote files that are reported
> traditionally by `file-remote-p', but that both are generally slower than
> accessing a typical local drive. You have confirmed that, so it seems we 
> pretty
> much agree now - at least about what happens, if not what to do about it.

No, we do NOT agree.  I think 100msec is practically indistinguishable
from 30msec, but 4 or 10 seconds are quite another story.