Program inefficiency?

[Dimiter "malkia" Stanev]

Sorry for intruding here,

But one inefficiency of the Windows XP (not NTFS in general) is that 
NTFS must generate 8.3 names (for old-DOS/Win31/Win95/Win98/WinME 
compatibility).

Generating such a name could slow down the system, as the name must be 
unique, and finding such unique name would be slow.

Off course this should only affect the CREATION, not the SEARCH 
(although with 8.3 support enabled you might end up with x2 times more 
entries (if all your names are bigger than 8.3)).

Here's more:

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/02/08/NTFS_Hacks.html

Thanks,
Dimiter "malkia" Stanev.

Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com wrote:
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> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: hall.jeff at gmail.com
>> the program works great except for one thing. It's significantly
>> slower through the later files in the search then through the early
>> ones... Before anyone criticizes, I recognize that that middle section
>> could be simplified with a for loop... I just haven't cleaned it
>> up...
>>
>> The problem is that the first 300 files take about 10-15 seconds and
>> the last 300 take about 2 minutes... If we do more than about 1500
>> files in one run, it just hangs up and never finishes...
>>
>> Is there a solution here that I'm missing? What am I doing that is so
>> inefficient?
> 
> You did not mention the OS, but because you are using
> "pathname\editfile.txt", it sounds like you are using an MS OS.  From
> past experience with various MS OSes, I found that as the number of
> files in a directory increases the slower your process runs for each
> file.  You might try putting these files into multiple sub-directories.
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