Re: thoughts on meta-data

> However, I *still* think it's worth examining for the core. Especially
> if we can save the file handles, already seeked to the right place,
> this could be a time savings. .09 seconds is a small enough number to
> warrant trying it out in the core to see how it works in the real
> world.

One thing's for sure is that you have a faster hard disk/machine than 
mine. My os.stat still shows a significant difference compared to the 
numbers you come out with, even after using your improvements. I'm not 
sure how windows reads files or do a stat(). When doing a stat() I'm 
sure that unix just reads the inodes without even looking at the file 
(I may be wrong). I'm also using a ibook for the tests so who knows 
numbers might be better for linux.

It's been an interesting excercise though :)



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