Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le mercredi 11 mai 2005 Ã 13:35 -0300, Humberto Massa a Ãcrit : >> Imagine that, to load Konqui, you have to go 200 times to the disk (ok, >> cache, but...), each of them reading the 10000 entries I have in >> /usr/lib, some of them twice or three times, to follow the symlinks. >> >> This is a real inefficiency. > > You said it: there is a cache. After the first access, the directory > will be in the cache. Making all of this a purely imaginary problem.
The whole directory is in the cache? I don't think so. Remember, that in between each lookup, a library gets searched, which probably flushes the entire cache.
