On May 22, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
On May 22, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Randall Wood wrote:There does remain a performance hit for large flat directories nomatter how the user sees it (through a web server which takes the hitor on the user's own machine).Do you have some evidence for this?I know it's the case for ffs or ext2 (in its default configuration), but HFS+ uses a tree structure for directory contents, so in testing I did in the past, there isn't much of a reason for making a big directory hierarchy.Back in the 10.1 days, I did some testing with many items in a directory (over 10,000, but I don't recall what the maximum number I tested with was) with no noticeable performance difference (except with the Finder, which choked).
The files dont live on HFS+. In any case, the current load time of http://distfiles.macports.org/ is pretty good evidence.
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