Re: master afc0bfd380: Speed up loaddefs-generate on slow disks

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> I'm really surprised this is faster, even on slow disks.
> Does anyone have a idea of why that is?

I didn't actually benchmark it -- either way is fast on my laptop.  But
the old autoloads code did it with time-less-p, and Eli said that it was
faster, so...  Perhaps Eli can report back whether it made a difference
or not.

> Maybe `file-newer-than-file-p` should accept a time value for one of the
> two file names so we can speed this up further by refraining from
> constructing a whole `file-attributes` only to reduce it down to
> a single boolean?

There's a longer discussion about these issues (i.e., reworking the
functions in this area to be more efficient in these respects) in the
bug tracker somewhere.  Paul had a bunch of ideas that I think we should
pursue.  I forget which bug# -- perhaps Paul remembers; added to the CCs.

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