Re: Startup speed: Still too many stats?

Darryl> I don't know about NT, but stat() is VERY expensive under Win95. Darryl> If I recall correctly, a call to stat() takes on the order of Darryl> milliseconds on a non-MMX P166 (and I think over 10ms), under Win95 Darryl> OSR2. Why, I don't know (this is real/elapsed, and not CPU, time). By Darryl> bypassing stat(), and using the native Win32 system calls, my dired-in-C Darryl> changes were able to get a significant performance improvement. That's why I asked if there isn't a way to compute file-directory-p without doing a full stat under Win32. Don't DOS directories store that information in the directory entry? -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla