Re: possible optimization

[William Lovaton <williama_lovaton coomeva com co>]

This is really cool, well done.

Any numbers about the improvements?? any comparison?  I guess this
optimization is best appreciated when there are lots of files in a
directory.

Cheers,

-William

El vie, 24-02-2006 a las 10:30 +0100, Alexander Larsson escribi� I just realised that when calculating the "size" calculation for folders
> (the number of items in the folder) we're currently getting all
> information from the files in that folder (i.e. a stat call per file)
> when we only really need the filenames.
> 
> The two attached patches avoids this, and testing with strace shows that
> before applying we stat each file in a subdirectory of the displayed
> file, whereas after we only do a readdir of each subdirectory. Of
> course, this is only done if the size is shown in the view (optional in
> icon view, always in list view).
> 
> Unfortunately the gnome-vfs patch adds a piece of API. Should we try to
> get this into gnome 2.14? Opinions?
> 
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