From: Alex Maccaw <maccman@...>
Date: 2008-01-08T22:18:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding the first file in a dir, fast, for message queue

> You find 5ms when accessing the file system long?  I'd say that's
> pretty fast considering what you do (recursive search).  I doubt you
> will get much improvement as long as you always access the file system
> for your search.  If you know the change frequency of files then you
> could store file system contents in memory and only update every n
> seconds / minutes or whatever or have a background thread that
> continuously updates your in memory representation.


Well, it's long compared to generating folder names, a guid, and writing 
files. It means that I can publish about 1000 msgs per second on to my 
queue, but only pull of 243 msgs per second.
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