From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil speed Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:20:25 +0000 From: rog@vitanuova.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 37b4c5b8-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > fossil is not smart about its handling of directory > entries, so removing n files is an O(n^2) operation. > a directory with 40,000 files is going to take a little > while to remove. 200 directories of 200 files each > should be noticeably faster. i don't know whether that's an issue here. for the directory in question, 65% of directories have 4 or less entries, and 95% have less than 30.