From: Kevin Smith <sent@...>
Date: 2001-02-14T00:45:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10786] Re: perform. of Dir["**/*"]

Richard Hensh wrote:
>Now that someone has straightened me out on the use of **, I have a
>performance question. Running the following script on my C: drive took about
>497 seconds. The drive contains 32701 files. Is this slow?
>
>def testme
>  a = Time.now
>  puts Dir["**/*"].length
>  b = Time.now
>  puts b-a
>end

Well, you're printing out 64 filenames per 
second, which seems reasonable, since video 
output is notoriously slow. Try either not 
puts'ing the results, or redirecting the output 
to a file to see if it speeds up dramatically.

Kevin