Re: stat very inefficient

Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-29T00:09:46Z

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:45:23PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

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

Just How bad is it for you? I just tested stat on my crapbox and for
a short path 1M stats takes 0.5s and for a longer path (30 bytes or
so) 2.8s.

Sure, it's always nice to make things faster, but given that whatever
else I'm doing with this information will most likely be *many* times
slower I'm not sure if reducing it to zero would make any appreciable
difference here...

--cw