On Thu, 09 Nov 2017 18:21:59 +0000, Ralph Corderoy said:

> On my normal slow machine on ext4, reading the current directory of `.',
> `..', and files {1..480832} takes
>
>     $ time ls -f >/dev/null
>
>     real    0m1.184s
>     user    0m0.599s
>     sys     0m0.585s
>     $

> Both have had the command previously run recently, but then manipulation
> of an nmh folder tends to keep the interesting data in memory.

Yeah, the pain is in the cache-cold state. Especially if you're still in the 
spinning-rust world.

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