Program inefficiency?

[Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thebjorn
> 
> On Sep 29, 9:32 pm, stdazi <std... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sep 29, 6:07 pm, Michael.Coll-Ba... at VerizonWireless.com wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > how so?
> 
> Not entirely sure why, but some of the ms docs allude to the fact that
> there is a linked list involved (at least for fat-style disks).
> 

Wow!  Talk about defending one's self ( me ).  I took stdazi's question
to mean why I thought it was an MS OS issue.  And, yes, you are correct
about the linked-list.  Although, I do not know if that was the reason
for the my problem.


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