Re: lynx-dev local directory listing - TOO SLOW

[dickey]

> Mike Castle wrote: 
>  
> > Amazingly enough Bela Lubkin said: 
> > > getpwuid() and getgrgid() are slow, on my system, because they open, 
> > > read, and close the appropriate file (/etc/passwd or /etc/group) every 
> > > time.  Maybe other libc implementations cache this information.  If not, 
> > > this might be a good candidate for a little cache inside HTLoadFile(). 
> > > It doesn't need to be persistent across calls. 
> >  
> > A look at idcache.c from GNU fileutils might also provide a bit of help. 
>  
> Yeah, that looks like it would do just fine. 

I added a cache for uid's and gid's a few patches ago.  (It's only a
linked list, but should work fine - most directories don't have a lot
of owners).  Perhaps the problem is elsewhere.
  
> >Bela< 


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