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Re:Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls by NikolaNovak on Sunday December 19, 2021 @04:22PM (#29618553)
I suppose it depends on a person and situation. Significant amount of my lists end up an overfull directory of logs or traces or whatevers. Basic utilities used daily (hourly? Minutely?) need every inch of speed eeked out.
Re:Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls by kaba0 on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:11AM (#29622221)
Many of the interactive tools you use are bash scripts so I seriously doubt that the above benchmark is meaningful for normal use cases. Whether you see that 4 files in 0.01 or 0.05s is basically the exact same and this wait time doesn’t accumulate.