[erlang-questions] Fast directory walker

Frank Muller frank.muller.erl@REDACTED
Sat Dec 10 09:43:14 CET 2016


Hi Michael,

Better, but still ~2 seconds:

> timer:tc(fun() -> filelib:fold_files("/usr/share", ".*", true, fun(F, N)
-> N + 1 end, 0) end).
{1993074,28953}

If I get it correctly the call matches only on files, not on dirs.

/Frank

Le sam. 10 déc. 2016 à 03:12, Michael Truog <mjtruog@REDACTED> a écrit :

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> I would like to improve the speed of my directory
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> walk(Dir) ->
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> Have you tried filelib:fold_files/5
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