Posted by Csaba Gabor on 01/09/08 12:56

On Jan 9, 9:34 am, jodleren <sonn...@hot.ee> wrote:
> I have a system, which reads in the entire tree - all files. As of
> now, there are 1312 folders to read.
>
> 1st time it takes 53-60 seconds to read. The data is somehow cached,
> 2nd time time is takes 2-3 seconds.
>
> Is there a way to "cache" data beforehand? Like "preparing" the
> directory....?
>
> WBR
> Sonnich

You might simply direct the output of the dir
command into a file (or string or array depending
on which exec type of command you use) and then
parse that yourself. It should be FAR faster.

For reference,
It took my Win XP system about 315 seconds to do:
C:\>dir /s > delme.dir
with the entire c: drive, about 140000 files
totaling about 44 gigabytes in 32000 directories.
The resultant file was about 10 megabytes

Csaba Gabor from Vienna

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