nice to hear that my very old complaint about filetrees habit of breaking down everything to small files has caught and there is even a project I am not aware of that deal with this. Though my motivation was mostly readability and not speed of loading. Great work! :)
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:35 AM Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 10 Dec 2017, at 21:37, Stephan Eggermont <step...@stack.nl> wrote: > > > > Op 10-12-2017 om 15:44 schreef Cyril Ferlicot: > >> On dim. 10 déc. 2017 at 15:07, Nicolai Hess <nicolaih...@gmail.com > wrote: > >>> And I don't mean 1 or 2 thousand files. > >>> Loading bloc for example creates over 20.000 files. > >>> This is damn slow on windows. > >> This is one of the reasons Esteban created Tonel I think. With Tonel > there is 1 file par class instead of 1 file per method. Once it will be > really stable, moving projects to Tonel should speed up things on Windows. > > > > Indeed. An even larger problem is the write amplification: Minimium disk > file size of 4KB means a slow down of a factor 20. 1 (primary) file per > class and sorting the methods helps a lot. Doing that in a cross-platform > compatible way so we can easier share source code needs some further > refinement > > and btw since we moved pharo to tonel windows is a viable platform: > commits became seconds instead minutes (lots of minutes). > still work to do there, but we are getting closer… ;) > > Esteban > > > > > Stephan > > > > > > >
