From:	skb AT xmission DOT removethis DOT com (Scott Brown)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Reading directories, readdir/stat too slow
Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 1999 06:57:15 GMT
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For the last little while, I've been avoiding findfirst/findnext when
I need to read directories, preferring the opendir functions instead
because they make certain things a lot simpler.

Unfortunately, I find that opendir/readdir, when combined with a stat
call (to get file mode/size/etc) is a *lot* slower than findfirst,
taking on the order of 70-100 times longer to perform the same work.
When running against tens of thousands of files in hundreds of
directories, it is a significant problem.

Is there any way to speed things up?

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