Re: Automatic (e)tags generation and incremental updates

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10.01.2021 21:39, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Tom> Please try it on a non-trivial project before committing to something.
> Tom> IME a lot of these things work fine for simple projects, but when I want
> Tom> to use them on gdb or gcc, they are unusably slow.
>
> I built this branch & tried it today.  I don't know if this machine is
> just super fast or what, but it seems to perform well enough to use on
> gdb.  Thank you again for working on this.

I'm glad.

How big is the project?

What do

  (benchmark 1 '(project-files (project-current)))

  and

  (length (project-files (project-current)))

say?

I take it, both the initial generation is fast enough, and, of course 
after-save-hook? I optimized the latter on mozilla-central.

That just leaves the periodic updates logic as the main remaining big 
hurdle.