On 4/29/06, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
"Chris Frey" <cdfrey@foursquare.net> wrote in message
With the standards committees looking at including Boost::Filesystem in TR2, I think performance is imporant enough to be looked at by now.
So you may want to checkout the current CVS head to see if whatever performance problem you were seeing is still an issue.
I have also found the current CVS code to be on par with my "100% pure POSIX" recursive file-finder. The run-times and of the two implementatoins are identical. In fact, I even found the Boost.Filesystem implementation to be more optimal in certain cases since it makes use of the dirent.d_type member to detect the is_directory-ness of an entry, where my naive POSIX code was always calling stat(2). This means fewer syscalls for the Boost version, which is a win. Thanks for the great library, Beman! -- Caleb Epstein caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com