On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:
I don't think that the OP wanted to iterate through the entire
directory though...
Maybe so, but I don't think there would be any real disadvantage to
doing so.
Performance.
I'm pretty sure that just about any API that can retrieve a
filename from a directory will iterate through the whole directory
anyway.
No; retrieving a file by name is just a B+tree lookup in HFS. Walking
through the directory is a lot more expensive.
—Jens
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