Spiritd updated.

2012-04-06 Thread Simon
FWIW, I've updated spiritd to work w/ dmd 2.058. I've also moved the code to GitHub: https://github.com/div0/spiritd -- My enormous talent is exceeded only by my outrageous laziness. http://www.ssTk.co.uk

Re: unzip parallel, 3x faster than 7zip

2012-04-06 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
On 4/5/2012 6:53 PM, Jay Norwood wrote: I'm curious why win7 is such a dog when removing directories. I see a lot of disk read activity going on which seems to dominate the delete time. This doesn't make any sense to me unless there is some file caching being triggered on files being

Re: unzip parallel, 3x faster than 7zip

2012-04-06 Thread Jay Norwood
On Friday, 6 April 2012 at 14:55:14 UTC, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: If you delete a directory containing several hundred thousand directories (each with 4-5 files inside, don't ask), you can see windows freeze for long periods (10+seconds) of time until it is finished, which affects everything up

Re: D Conference 2012

2012-04-06 Thread Walter Bright
On 4/4/2012 7:22 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:29:08 -0400, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: The web site is up now: http://www.astoriaseminar.com See you all there! Any chance we can search for treasure while there? I'm sure there's plenty of

Re: unzip parallel, 3x faster than 7zip

2012-04-06 Thread dennis luehring
Am 05.04.2012 19:04, schrieb Timon Gehr: On 04/05/2012 06:37 PM, dennis luehring wrote: Am 05.04.2012 16:04, schrieb Jay Norwood: I uploaded a parallel unzip here, and the main in the examples folder. Testing on my ssd drive, unzips a 2GB directory structure in 17.5 secs. 7zip took 55 secs

Re: unzip parallel, 3x faster than 7zip

2012-04-06 Thread dennis luehring
Am 06.04.2012 01:53, schrieb Jay Norwood: I'm curious why win7 is such a dog when removing directories. I see a lot of disk read activity going on which seems to dominate the delete time. try windows safe-mode (without network :} - your virus scanner is disabled), press F8 before windows