Re: lynx-dev local directory listing - TOO SLOW

[dickey]

> 
> Lynx's rendering of local directory listing apperently too slow, 
> directory for 150 entries fetched the same time as ~200K long text 
> (this is especially strange with my slow DOS mashine - there is 
> no permissions to look so it is a single small file). 

It does a 'stat()' call for each file - which is a little slow (but
ls -l would do the same).  I don't have a slow machine to test it on
(even my old machine is 60Mhz - but I'll do some testing on that to
compare).
  
> Why not to do "ls -l" or "dir" or so 
> and than translate the output to internal HTML format? 
I don't think it would be faster in terms of the underlying system calls.
But it should be possible to test/compare by using the code that interprets
directory listings from remote servers.
  
> The code somethere in HTFile.c 
>  
>  


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