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On Jun 1 14:42, Christopher Wingert wrote: > I think there are a lot of use cases where the extra information (ACL > information *I assume* is the majority of the problem) is unnecessary. > For most of the applications filename, size, and the three dates are all > that is necessary. So cygwin stat is overkill. So if I can tell the > emulation layer (via an environment flag) or the actually utility > (bash/ls/make/find/du) via a command line switch, I think I can save a lot > of time waiting. > > Just to highlight how bad this problem is. I have a network drive with > 681 sub directories and approximately 90k files. A time comparison for > getting directory information as follows: > > *DOS "dir /s" takes 17 seconds. > *Cygwin "ls -lR" takes 5950 seconds (that's almost two hours). > *msls -lR takes 55 seconds. > *myls (see code below) takes 7 seconds. > > Each test was done twice and after a reboot to make sure there was no > caching involved. > > To be clear, Cygwin ls is 850X slower. Did you try to mount the network drive with the "noacl" mount option? That skips requesting the owner/group information. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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