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kbolino
on Aug 3, 2012
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Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles
For what it's worth, most modern file systems (JFS, XFS, ext4, reiserfs, btrfs, ...) have logarithmic (or better) directory lookup times. This is achieved using hashes and b-trees (or even hash tables).
lubutu
on Aug 3, 2012
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Fair point. Though anything using the standard POSIX dirent API would still get the performance hit (even if path resolution doesn't).
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