[Thunar-dev] thunar speed

[Benedikt Meurer]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>I noticed the same thing.
>>Opening my /usr/bin directory which contains about 2128 files took
>>thunar about 20 seconds. Rox opened it in 3 seconds.
>>
>>Odd...
> 
> For /usr/bin, that's the expected behaviour, and easy to explain. ROX
> doesn't do magic lookups on the MIME database, while Thunar follows the
> MIME spec (with one small exception) and does the magic lookup if none
> of the glob patterns match. Since Linux binaries usually don't include
> an extension, no glob patterns will match, and Thunar will have to open
> each file and check the magic patterns. Looking into 2128 files for the
> first time can take up to 20 seconds, depending on the systems I/O
> performance.

Hm, this seems to be fixed with ROX 2.4. It's using xdgmime now, which
does the magic lookups. Opening /usr/local/bin from cold(!) cache in
both Thunar and ROX 2.4 takes about the same time.

Benedikt