Yes, no_chdir means that find needs to keep readdirring and stating longer and longer paths, repeatedly traversing the parent directories. Real find, like the default File::Find, uses chdir to ensure that the readdir and stats traverse the minimal number of inodes.
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
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Oh wow, is there a memoize option?
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