1. Checking the number of links to directories and not statting files
that it knows aren't directories until it encounters a test or action
that needs the stat info.
-2. Rearranging the command line, where possible, so that it can do tests
-that don't require a stat before tests that do, in hopes that the
-latter will be skipped because of an OR or AND. (But it only does
-this where it will leave the output unchanged.)
+2. Rearranging the command line, where possible, so that it can do
+tests that don't require a stat before tests that do, in hopes that
+the latter will be skipped because of a -o/-a conjunction. (But it
+only does this where it will leave the output unchanged.)
The locate program and its helper programs are derived (heavily
modified) from James Woods' public domain fast-find code, which is