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Re:Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls by coldtea on Monday December 20, 2021 @06:40AM (#29623727)
>Helper scripts using ls can involve lots of items and recursion, so the slowness can go exponential.

It can't go exponential. Recursion or not, you did N passes with ls, and you'll do N passes with exa.

Unless exa is exponentially (not by a linear factor) slower than ls, the slowness can't go exponential.

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