Re: [PATCH] Process unlimited files at once

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 09:38 +0200, Martin Wehner wrote:
> This patch gives you a nice speed improvement with large directories
> basically for free: Currently the rate at which files are processed is
> limited to 300 at a time - Supposedly to tame the list view during
> loading. But the reason for this is long gone (the view isn't refreshed
> during loading anymore, for one thing), and it achieves quite the
> opposite: A full refresh cycle including relayout is forced after 300
> files, no matter what. I played a lot with this number and came to this
> conclusion: You want to flush out as much changes as you can, everytime.
> Trying to limit the rate to improve responsiveness will only degrade it
> because of the forced refreshs.
> When you open a directory with 3000 files now, it'll relayout the list
> view 10 times when displaying initially, when you remove the rate
> limitation, it'll display instantly.

Looks very good. Please commit.

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