On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 07:37:43PM +0100, allan wrote: > thanks ronald > for the suggestion which looks better but is just as ineffecient as mine > original. i timed both versions twice traversing 878 files in 1006 > directories of total size 839.441066 MB. both taking 280 secs each time > around. to clarify this is how i get the filenames w original code > embedded (commented)
I tested your code on a directory which contains 29765 files in 2877 directories and it only took 13 seconds. (I had to fill in use File::Basename, $delimiter = '/', and the initial call to check_folders(), of course.) Perhaps your file system is just very slow? Ronald
