On 8 March 2015 at 13:31, Ben Hoyt <benh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for committing this, Victor! And fixing the d_type issue on funky > platforms. > > Others: if you want to benchmark this, the simplest way is to use my > os.walk() benchmark.py test program here: > https://github.com/benhoyt/scandir -- it compares the built-in os.walk() > implemented with os.listdir() with a version of walk() implemented with > os.scandir(). I see huge gains on Windows (12-50x) and modest gains on my > Linux VM (3-5x). > > Note that the actual CPython version of os.walk() doesn't yet use > os.scandir(). I intend to open a separate issue for that shortly (or Victor > can). But that part should be fairly straight-forward, as I already have a > version available in my GitHub project. >
I think it would be a good idea to report the type of drive/mount along with the results. I imagine that there might be significant differences between solid state drives, hard drives and network mounts. Tim Delaney
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