> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:16 PM, erik quanstrom<[email protected]> wrote: > >> still a hash. i'm not doing anything particularly clever for speed, > >> and it shows in places. > > I lied a bit here: in some cases, for example where a particular query > would involve going through several (up to a couple of thousand) files > and subdirectories to compose, i provide a single file that gives me > that information much faster and in only a fraction of the 9p queries > it would normally would. it's by no means a general solution to the > speed problem, but it does get me the data 30-50 times faster... > > but i digress...
interstingly, i considered mentioning the old upas/fs trick of the info file, which i believe is approximately the same hack. the "xxx" hack i recently added to the file has table of upas/fs is somewhat the mirror image of the info file. i suppose that in the language of standardized assessment tests technique is to hack as 30x is to 5%. - erik
