[Python-Dev] PEP 471 -- os.scandir() function -- a better and faster directory iterator

[Nick Coghlan]

On 28 June 2014 19:17, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Agreed, but walking even a moderately large tree over the network can
> really hammer home the point that this offers a significant
> performance enhancement as the latency of access increases. I've found
> that kind of comparison can be eye-opening for folks that are used to
> only operating on local disks (even spinning disks, let alone SSDs)
> and/or relatively small trees (distro build trees aren't *that* big,
> but they're big enough for this kind of difference in access overhead
> to start getting annoying).

Oops, forgot to add - I agree this isn't a blocking issue for the PEP,
it's definitely only in "nice to have" territory.

Cheers,
Nick.

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