>> Well, I'm sure it works. I don't have a quesiton about that. It just seems
>> "slow" to list.
>>
>> When I go to my Documents folder or my media folder, there's always a long
>> pause and a bunch of disk activity while it loads the contents. I'm not
>> sure why.
>
>Go there in a shell and list them.
>
>You are confusing the time it takes to allocate huge chunks of memory to build 
>a listview and sus out what type of file each is (in order to show the 
>correct icon) with the time it takes to acutally do ls -l.

ls also does sorting, so at best you would do this:

#include <dirent.h>
int main(void) {
        DIR *x = opendir(".");
        while(readdir(x));
        closedir(x);
}

and time that, both with cold and hot dirs.

        -`J'
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