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On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 02:13 +0200, Carl Henrik Lunde wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk> wrote:
> [...]
> > For a directory of ~2360 files, chunks of a 1000 files is actually
> > surprisingly worse than statting all of the files at once:
> >
> > Time to stat 1000 files: 1.008735 s
> > Time to stat 1000 files: 0.738936 s
> > Time to stat 366 files: 0.217002 s
> >
> > I guess this just shows that seeks really is pretty much all that
> > matters. Glib should maybe use a larger chunk size.
>
> I agree, if I remember correctly I did not find a directory on my local
> disk where the best result was to sort a chunk instead of the complete
> directory.

I don't think that is expected either. The reason for the chunking is to
avoid unlimited memory use on large directories.



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