That's why I said "if you need any kind of metadata about the file".
If you don't, yes, the BSD calls are faster. But as soon as you need
to get more than just basic file name info, Carbon is much faster as
it can get that info *while* it is getting the list of files so it
doesn't need to make an additional catalog lookup. The additional
calls to getattrlist() can be very expensive for the BSD calls.
If you search the list archives, there have been many, many tests
that confirm this.
Ack, at 4/11/06, Will Mason said:
There's also nothing wrong with using BSD calls: opendir(3),
readdir(3), closedir(3). I'd be willing to bet (without empirical
data) that those are actually the fastest of any of the proposed
options.
Cheers,
Will
----- Original Message ----
From: Rosyna <email@hidden>
To: Pierre Bernard <email@hidden>; j o a r <email@hidden>
Cc: email@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 8:25:10 AM
Subject: Re: SLOW -[NSFileManager
directoryContentsAtPath:matchingExtension:options:keepExtension:]
In that case I suggest you use an FSIterator with
FSGetCatalogInfoBulk(). There have been quite a few posts on this
subject on this list. Search the archives for FSGetCatalogInfoBulk().
FSGetCatalogInfoBulk() is probably the fastest method for directory
enumeration if you need any kind of metadata about the file (name,
directory, permissions, whatever).
Conversely, directoryContentsAtPath is probably the slowest method to
enumerate directories.
--
Sincerely,
Rosyna Keller
Technical Support/Holy Knight/Always needs a hug
Unsanity: Unsane Tools for Insanely Great People
It's either this, or imagining Phil Schiller in a thong.
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