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Aucbvax.3266 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Tue Sep 22 18:55:30 1981 Re: speed of 'ls -l' >From decvax!duke!unc!smb@Berkeley Tue Sep 22 15:33:24 1981 It occurs to me that your first suggestion -- remembering where your search left off -- will lose badly on frequently accessed files in a directory, as it will always have to search the whole thing. It also means that one can't optimize, say, /bin, by moving stuff in in a set order.

Your second suggestion -- sorting directory entries by i-number -- isn't too hard to implement if you do it a block at a time.

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