bug#66117: 30.0.50; `find-buffer-visiting' is slow when opening large number of buffers

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > So in C this is:
>> >
>> >   list2 (INT_TO_INTEGER (s.st_ino), INT_TO_INTEGER (s.st_dev));
>> 
>> But how to get `s'? Do you mean that we should re-run `sys_fstat' on
>> every buffer? That's slow (query to FS), isn't it?
>
> No, it's very fast, at least on Posix hosts.  But if we decide it
> isn't fast enough, we can record that in the buffer when the file is
> visited.

I am mostly concerned about network FS, where any file operation can be
slow.

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