From: HarryO <harryo@...>
Date: 2001-12-21T09:10:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29183] Re: Dir and Stat on windows

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 08:28:18 +1100, Steve Tuckner wrote:

This seems like the "right" way to do it, but I'm wondering whether
it might actually be faster to let "ls -l" do the work of getting
everything from the file system and then just parsing the output
and using mktime to convert the text timestamps into real Time
objects.

In fact, if you use "ls -lt", you could probably avoid a lot of
the conversions by doing a binary search on the lines output by
the ls and only converting the times as you need them for comparison
purposes.

Of course, you were probably actually just interested in understanding
the profiler output :-).