[erlang-questions] Fast directory walker

[Frank Muller]

Max,

Very interesting.

What's the benefit of starting this prim_file server?
Does it make avoid the singleton process "file_server"?

I'll bench this hack with Sergeij's version and post the result here.

/Frank

Le sam. 10 déc. 2016 à 12:02, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> a écrit :

> All these discussions about faster or slower are not considering very
> important thing:  all these operations are going through singleton process
> file_server.  All this speed will become nothing on single core.
>
>
> This hackish way:
>
> {ok, H} = prim_file:start(),
> {ok, Entries} = prim_file:list_dir(H, Path)
>
>
> works on multicore
>
>
>
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