More on Thunar vs Rodent read speeds

[Karim REKIK]

> Speed in Rodent is defined in reference to how fast
> a user can get things done.
>
Will bookmarks be implemented in Rodents ? It's IMHO a way to get things
done faster.

wkr



2011/7/1 Edscott Wilson Garcia <edscott at xfce.org>

> Last night I dreamt Auke was telling me something about the directory
> read routine used by Rodent, so I examined the code and found that it
> was still legacy xffm-4.5.0 with extra Rodent demands. With Rodent
> Beta-2 code I got 14 seconds for a cold cache reload of /usr/bin (2071
> items).
>
> Considering Danielle's figures:
>
> > I've made a better test as suggested by Auke , rebooting after each
> > trial (i could also  echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches ? ):
> >
> > open /usr/bin, 2120 items, 266.7 mb:
> >
> > Thunar: first read: ~18s
> >       second read: ~3.6s
> >
> > Rodent: first read: ~24s
> >       second read: ~5.9s
> >
>
> The equivalent of my 14 seconds on Danielle's box would be 10.5 seconds
> for Thunar.
>
> So I rethreaded operations in Rodent and brought the 14 seconds for a
> cold cache reload of /usr/bin to less than one second. Thus, in the
> forthcoming Rodent Beta-3 (aka xffm-4.6.6), Rodent will be 1000% faster
> on first read, and 360% faster on second read for /usr/bin. These
> figures are for a 4 core box. Single core boxes might not fare as well
> (I'll try to do some tests later on).
>
> Nonetheless, I still do not think stopwatch performance is what defines
> a fast filemanager. Speed in Rodent is defined in reference to how fast
> a user can get things done.
>
> BTW, Rodent Beta-3 (aka xffm-4.6.6) is in the final refactoring stage
> and release is coming soon.
>
> --
>
> cheers!
>
> Edscott
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