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Subject: Re: Case sensitive fileName
From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:23:34 -0700


On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:

I don't think that the OP wanted to iterate through the entire directory though...
Maybe so, but I don't think there would be any real disadvantage to
doing so.


Performance.

 I'm pretty sure that just about any API that can retrieve a
filename from a directory will iterate through the whole directory
anyway.

No; retrieving a file by name is just a B+tree lookup in HFS. Walking through the directory is a lot more expensive.

—Jens

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