Re: [Mingw-users] ls -l on big files takes forever ... and it gets an overflow?

[Fabian G. <fa...@gr...>]

Am 21.06.2011 14:07, schrieb Earnie:
> It'll be up to someone else to provide a fix.  The response is "For
> short-running processes that's generally not a problem."  And since it
> is using a different runtime than MSYS it is not even relative.

Michael Tokarev provides some more insight in this posting, but the 
overall conclusion remains the same:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/03/msg00025.html

> I usually find that ls without parameter switches run relatively
> quickly.  It is the statistics that requires time since fstat needs to
> be called repeatedly.  One would have to study the newlib functions as
> used by MSYS to determine if there is an issue there as well as other
> functions that ls might be calling.

I can confirm the benchmarks that you provided in your following mail. 
On my system, running "time ls -l /bin" took 4,1 seconds for the first 
run and around 0,2 seconds for each subsequent run; my /bin directory 
currently holds 306 files.

  - Fabian