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To: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>
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Subject: Re: stat very inefficient
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On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:33:59 +1000
Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> wrote:

> But is stat{,64} actually showing up badly in profiles?
> If it's not I don't think it's worth doing *anything* (I can imagine
> loads where it would, e.g., make on a large sourcetree, or running a
> backup)

"find . -type f" is probably the most often run command somewhere
in a shell pipeline when I'm doing kernel work and grepping
around.