Re: Dired C idea

[Michael Albinus]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>   > Should be feasible. The hard part is a rule to determine, whether rsync
>   > is better suited than the existing implementation, with the given actual
>   > arguments. I suspect, that small directories and/or short files are
>   > better served with the current implementation.
>
> Do we really need to decide this?  Wouldn't it be ok to use rsync
> for all cases (where Tramp is not in use)?

I would like to see some benchmark figures first. For example, I'm not
sure that rsync performs better when the target directory does not exist
yet, and there's nothing to sync.

Best regards, Michael.