Thanks for having a look at this problem.
With Camillo, we though about using parallel processes but never go further
than an idea :)
Ben
On Jan 15, 2012, at 6:11 PM, Stefan Marr wrote:
> Hi:
>
> The finder is annoyingly slow when doing string searches.
> Compared to a 'grep' its multiple magnitudes slower, at least from my
> perception :(
>
> Profiling pointed my at RemoteString>>string and its use of readOnlyCopy on
> the SourceFiles.
>
> I put a cache of these read only files into ExpandedSourceFileArray and get a
> nice speedup.
>
> { [ Finder new constructSourceDictionary ] timeToRun.
> [ Finder new constructSourceDictionary ] timeToRun.
> [ Finder new constructSourceDictionary ] timeToRun . }
>
> Without Cache: #(32079 29034 32274)
> With Cache: #(10757 10718 11050)
>
>
> While that works for the searching, it does fall apart for other uses of
> RemoteString>>string. (For instance, filing out the changes...)
>
>
> If anyone has an idea how to avoid the overhead of copying, I would be all
> ears.
>
>
> Thanks
> Stefan
>
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