Barry Warsaw <barry <at> python.org> writes:
> 
> As to the question of sibling directories or folder-per-folder I think
> performance issues should be the deciding factor.  There are file system
> limitations to consider (but also a wide variety of file systems in use).  Do
> the number of stat calls predominate the performance costs?  Maybe it makes
> sense to implement the two different approaches and do some measurements.

How about doing measurements /with the current implementation/? Everyone seems
to worry about stat() calls but there doesn't seem to be any figures to evaluate
their significance.

Thanks

Antoine.


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