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Re: Optimizing Enormous lists in NSBrowser
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Re: Optimizing Enormous lists in NSBrowser


  • Subject: Re: Optimizing Enormous lists in NSBrowser
  • From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:28:28 +1000


On 22/09/2009, at 1:20 AM, Dave DeLong wrote:

Simple tests show that Finder can handle a folder of a million files in about 2-3 minutes


That's still effectively unusable.

Ideally if the list can't display more than, say 50 files at a time (depends on how big your screen is, etc), then it shouldn't touch more than 50 files on disk. It has never really managed that however, and maybe there are fundamental limitations in the file system that prevent it optimising to that extent.

As a user I'd never put more than 1000 files in a folder if I can help it, and that's well up from what you could practically achieve on Mac OS 9-.

--Graham


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