[Thunar-dev] Slow media

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Sat Jul 16 12:02:23 CEST 2005


Wit Wilinski wrote:
>> Dunno what you did to your Gtk+ or KDE, but from my tests, KDE
>> takes longer to load directories from cold cache than does the
>> GtkFileChooser default implementation. Thunar takes even less time.
> 
> OpenOffice.org dialogs display /usr/bin after less than a second
> (though these dialogs don't show icons or test the mime types)

That's just

  d = opendir();
  while (readdir(d)) {...}
  closedir(d);

that can be done within a few microseconds (from warm cache) depending 
on the directory size.

Benedikt



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