Re: Startup speed: Still too many stats?
Some time ago, Hrvoje Niksic wrote...
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| sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:
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| > On another note, is a full stat really necessary on NT to compute
| > file-directory-p?
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| Good question. Note, however, that I am not running on NT.
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stat() C library call ends up with FindFirstFile, the API which starts enumeration
of files matching pattern in a directory. Since stats in package search case usually
come short after listing directory, they must be pretty cheap for the information
is already cached by the system.
The same applies to network shares, becuause rdr caches network drives very
intelligently, if underlying protocol allows (SMB does). Do not know about
'95 though.
Kirill