On 1 June 2012 22:47, Chris Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Camillo Bruni <[email protected]> wrote:
>> For those complaining lately about the new FS being a bit slow ;)
>> Igor and I hacked together a test version for accessing files using 
>> NativeBoost.
>>
>> From our stupid example (listing /usr/bin with ~1k Files) we were incredible 
>> 40 times! faster
>> than the file primitives in the current image (5ms instead of 200ms).
>>
>> With the current FS infrastructure such a migration can be done absolutely 
>> painless by
>> simply replacing one back-end a time.
>>
>> best
>> cami
>
> Can you share this work?  I've been interested in this particular use
> for NB for a while now, but haven't gotten around to trying it (or,
> unfortunately, NB itself) yet.  This would probably push me into a
> user role - and is definitely something I'd like to see.
>

hehe.. there's almost nothing to show about..
we're just making calls to two C functions:
opendir()
and
readdir()
from standard C library.

a very basic stuff, which you would do if your programming language is C :)

anyways, see attached.

If you on mac, it shall work.. try something like:

(UnixDir on: '/usr/bin') entries


> -Chris

-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.

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