Re: file_exists and wildcard/regex
| From: | Per Jessen | Date: | Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:39:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: file_exists and wildcard/regex | ||
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ceo@l-i-e.com wrote:
>
> I'm not sure how glob works in the guts, but I know it is dog-slow for
> large numbers of files (or maybe just large numbers of results).
>
I'm not sure what the context of this was, but the speed of searching a
directory with a large number of files, e.g. 100,000s, also depends a
lot on the filesystem.
/Per Jessen, Zürich