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RE: ITP: netpbm
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Earnie Boyd" <Cygwin-Apps at Cygwin dot Com>,"Charles Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Cc: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>,"Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>,"Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke at gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 08:16:13 +1000
- Subject: RE: ITP: netpbm
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 6:03 AM
> As for the # of executables in the /bin directory, isn't
> there a limit to the number of files and/or directory entries
> in any one directory on win32?
As has already been said, not past the root. However directory search
time is O(N) on FAT, vs (IIRC) O(logN) on NTFS. So directories with many
files leads to signficcantly longer lookup times - and thas when the
filename is known!.
Rob