Re: lynx-dev local directory listing - TOO SLOW

[Leonid Pauzner]

11-Jan-99 11:06 address@hidden wrote:
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>> On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 address@hidden wrote:
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>> > the only puzzling thing is that LP's reporting slow access times on a
>> > standalone PC with djgpp, too, iirc.
>>
>> I am seeing access times MUCH faster than in the past, starting
>> somewhere between dev.9 and dev.12. Someone did something that improved
>> access time to local files on both SunOS and DOS with DJGPP. I was
>> puzzled at the complaints of slow access time coming just as my access
>> got much faster.

> that's the caching I added, plus reducing the calls to check for keyboard
> interrupt.  (I'm puzzled still, but don't have a good way to measure djgpp)

I have not noticed the difference with Linux and with DOS/DJGPP.
I tried DJGPP port of ls and "ls -all" experienced to be rather slow,
with a great overhead over native "dir" (MS-DOS)...

>> Doug Kaufman


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