Date:	Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:15:19 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP 2.04 performance & size
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On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu wrote:

> > In other words, does most of the difference come from globbing (which 
> > would point to `glob' and `findfirst') or from `stat' (which probably 
> > means we are paying for the symlink support)?
> 
> The time for djecho seems to be the same for V2.03 and CVS, around 
> 4 seconds (with about 1 second accuracy ...)

That means the problem is probably in `stat'.  It would be interesting to 
profile two binaries of `ls', one from CVS, the other built with v2.03 or 
earlier, and see what portion does `stat' take.

> In the above example there's no globbing, but it does seem that 
> findfirst isn't the slowdown.

Yes.

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