From the documentation > Here’s an example. exa, by default, runs the stat system call on every file it encounters. This requires communicating with the storag

From the documentation > Here’s an example. exa, by default, runs the stat system call on every file it encounters. This requires communicating with the storage device or hard disk to get that file’s type and permissions, which determine how that file gets coloured and displayed on screen. The system call, which may have been expensive in the days of time-shared computers and slow connections, is still not free, but is extremely cheap. The extra information is worth the minuscule increase in processing time. For 100% - ~3 use cases the performance difference does nit matter as a human is unable to react in milliseconds. You can always fallback to ls.