In article <20150403135750.ge18...@kyllikki.org>, Vincent Sanders <vi...@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> <snip> > > > > I suspect much of the delay for small files is due to checking, > > > > creating, and traversing directories! > > > > > The depth was chosen so it would work on poor-quality file systems > > > that only allow a handful of entries in a directory, such as > > > FileCore :) > > > > It is a shame that there is no simple way to discover if 'big > > directories' are being used with no such limitations, as they have > > been here for many many years. > A bit technical for this list but > http://git.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/tree/content/fs_backing_store.c#n326 > explains ... I did have a look, but clear as mud to me. I have just deleted my cache from Netsurf v3.3 - about 2,500 files ... and about 12,500 directories! That is about 5 directories for each file, and I would hope for at least 50 files in each directory! But I do understand that it is not simple task!
