On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 5:11 AM Richard Higginbotham <[email protected]> wrote: > The original use case was detecting new files in various directories. Each > directory was expected to have millions of 4KB files and maybe at most 100k > of new files. This was in around 2002 and it was a huge time savings for me. >
I can't help thinking that the time for such a job would be dominated by disk operations here :) If a single directory has quote "millions" of files, you're going to see some pretty significant differences based on which file system you're using; not every FS copes well with gigantic directories. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YRZA24CBLB4S7C7FXPXFXGGPLLZS3RIG/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
