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Re:I made an ls alternative for my personal use by niek_pas on Monday November 25, 2024 @10:08AM (#42236883)
Not trying to “gotcha” you, but I would imagine that 10x the CPU of ls is still very little, or am I wrong?
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Re:I made an ls alternative for my personal use by jeffbee on Monday November 25, 2024 @10:21AM (#42237004)
In the case of the 500k tree, `lla` needs 2.5 seconds, so it's pretty substantial.
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Re:I made an ls alternative for my personal use by echoangle on Monday November 25, 2024 @05:36PM (#42240848)
Is listing a lot of files really CPU-limited? Isn’t the problem IO speed?
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