Re: AW: [Ecb-list] Ecb speed

[Rob W. <rob...@te...>]

On Thursday 09 January 2003 11:27, Berndl, Klaus wrote:
> Rob, you are right, this is one of the remaining problems we
> should solve. The method-buffer of ECB has already such a tree-node-
> Cache, but not the directory and sources buffers.
>
> But:
>
> There is an option ecb-cache-directory-contents which at least can cache
> The directory-contents so a large the directory is only read once from
> disk. Did you know this option??
>

Yes, but it didn't seem to have much effect. From the profiling, it looks like 
most of the time is spent adding nodes to the tree buffer. 

[snip]
> I know this is not the 100% solution (maybe we will work on a real autom.
> caching  for the directory-buffer, but i can not promise it) but IMHO it
> could be a 90% or atr least 80% solution. What do you think?
>

This doesn't really help me as it's the directory listing I want ECB for. 
I've set up ecb to embed speedbar as suggested by Eric Ludlam and this seems 
to be working OK. Speedbar takes an interesting approach to this problem by 
doing most of the work in functions that are called when emacs is idle. Maybe 
something similar could be done for ECB??

Thanks for your help

Rob