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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:47:31 -0500
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil speed
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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.

russ