Re: lynx-dev local directory listing - TOO SLOW

[dickey]

> >> Why not to do "ls -l" or "dir" or so 
> >> and than translate the output to internal HTML format? 
> > I don't think it would be faster in terms of the underlying system calls. 
> > But it should be possible to test/compare by using the code that interprets 
> > directory listings from remote servers. 
>  
> Another reason for slow output in this case 
> is the absence of partial mode for directory listing, 
> in contrast to local files. 

actually - I think not.  Most of the elapsed time in either case for the
directory listing is before the partial-display mode gets to start working.
(Partial display does come into play by the code that checks for _interrupts_,
but that was what I was trying to fix in my changes a few weeks ago).
  

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