there's actually a directory walker search one can use in a shell command on mac that is quite speedy...
let me report back. sqb -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - mixstream.org On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 2:29 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Malte Pfaff-Brill wrote: > > > I wonder if shelling out to DIR on Windows and LS on Linux/Mac > > wouldn’t be the fastest option… > > Maybe, but there's overhead in setting up the shell session. > > Even if it's measurably faster, I would be surprised if it were noticeably > faster. > > Anything that depends on touching the disk with each call is likely to be > far more I/O-bound than CPU-bound. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
