-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joey Hess wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: >> About 27s for me. I type in the path and click "OK" for the >> small dialog that pops up when you start typing. It's then >> about 27s before that dialog goes away and I can click "OK" on >> the actual file picker. > > Ah. That delay actually occurs when the actual file picker (for > lack of a better term) displays the /usr/bin directory. > > The amazing thing is what it's doing. This includes: > > open /usr/bin getdents > > for each file stat it (to get modification time?) > > That's reasonable, and most programs would stop here with about > .2 seconds used. Although a non-generic "pick a program to use" > chooser shouldn't need to even care about getting modification > times, which would bring it down to more like 0.001 seconds used. > > > > for each file open file use fstat on it (to get modification > time? again?) read 4k of file contents, apparently to determine > the file type to use in displaying various (identically > meaningless) icons > > The second loop is the killer when it needs to read 3000 files. > Tens of thousands of system calls, and the disk seeking all > around to read some 12 mb of data. Pretty absurd indeed.
This is a generic file picker. You'd have to code in some sort of exception handler. "if the directory is in $PATH, only care about file names". I hereby give you permission to file a wishlist bug. :) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEkK9ES9HxQb37XmcRAt+TAJwKacirkUExML/faWg8DJEuitcmHwCdF1CD w4/6U8Inf6F1MoXHbZoF3Fw= =RasU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
