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I think for most programs, path manipulation is fortunately not in the performance-critical parts.
by aristidb 12y ago
I think for most programs, path manipulation is fortunately not in the performance-critical parts.
- tedunangst 12y agoThere's always that one exception... http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-08/msg00012.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-08/msg00012...
- calvins 12y agoThat's not about path manipulation. It's about resizing the hash table that is required for keeping track of hard links when copying hundreds of millions of files using cp. The path manipulation that cp does would still be inconsequential in that example.