Re: Startup speed: Still too many stats?

Larry Smith <lsmith(a)cio2000.eds.com&gt; wrote: I don't see a problem with dired in XEmacs & network drives. Can you elaborate? On a P150 MMX laptop running Win95 OSR2, doing a dired of c:\windows\system (~1120 files) takes around 10-11 seconds. On the same system, doing a dired of a network drive (~950 files) takes 9-10 seconds. The lan card is a slow PCMCIA (non-cardbus) 10BT card. The network drive is on an NT box running 4.0sp3, and the remote directory scanned is c:\winnt\system32 (on the NT box). Both of these times are comparable, and so I don't see any problem. Dired would run even faster if I compiled XEmacs without debugging turned on. However, this is with XEmacs debugging turned on, which slows down XEmacs, but with the dired-in-C code enabled. This is also with some dired patches (for performance increases) that I recently submitted to the dired maintainer, but these patches affect all uses of dired, and would make no difference between a local or network drive. -- Darryl Okahata Internet: darrylo(a)sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day.