[Info-vax] improve performance of /EXCLUDE

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <ma2jt0$ota$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes: 

> > At least in some cases, it seems that /EXCLUDE suppresses just the
> > output, not the processing.  Wouldn't it be possible to improve this?
> 
> A simple example?
> 
> If you /exclude something in an DIR command I expect DIR
> has still to read all of the .DIR file, of course.
> 
> If you /exclude something in a SEARCH command I expect
> SEARCH *not* to read the excluded files, of course.

IIRC, it was DIR/SIZE or something.  OK, I could see that it might need 
to get a list of files, but does it have to get the size for the files 
in the exclude list?

Will have to check it.