On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: >> >> A few months back, John Ford wrote a standalone win32 executable >> that used the proper APIs to delete an entire directory. I think he >> said that it deleted the object directory 5-10x faster or something. >> No clue what happened with that. > > I wish this were true, but I seriously doubt it. I can buy that it's > faster, but not 5-10 times so.
http://blog.johnford.org/writting-a-native-rm-program-for-windows/ says that it deleted a mozilla-central clone 3x faster. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727551 is the bug tracking it; there appear to be some problems blocking progress. Nick _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
