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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Why are some apps so slow?
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:55:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0609230755k5c375fbcr9ad62fbc529479ac@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40609230647p4445affar3ca7969bbe9a869@mail.gmail.com>

> But in many cases the files read are small, and keeping the
> fd open would not help. Just curiosity, anyway.

Why wouldn't keeping the fd open help?
It would get rid of the walk, open, and close,
3 of the 4 messages you were trying to get down to 1.

Rsus


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-23 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-22  5:31 John Floren
2006-09-22  5:54 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-09-22  6:08 ` Anselm R. Garbe
2006-09-22 11:43 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 13:49 ` jmk
2006-09-22 15:02   ` C H Forsyth
2006-09-22 20:21   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-09-23 13:32     ` Russ Cox
2006-09-23 13:47       ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-09-23 14:55         ` Russ Cox [this message]
2006-09-23 15:00           ` Francisco J Ballesteros

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