Drive Scanning Appears to be Quite Slow

TimSevereijns / D-Viz

A toy project to visualize a local filesystem.

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Drive Scanning Appears to be Quite Slow #3

Closed TimSevereijns closed 7 years ago

TimSevereijns commented 8 years ago

Scanning an entire drive can take upwards of 5 minutes. WinDirStat appears to be a lot faster in comparison. It's possible that the Windows functions may be able to take advantage of some filesystem indexing features that Boost avoids. Consider benchmarking the Boost code against the native Windows code to see if switching might be worth the effort.

TimSevereijns commented 7 years ago

Drive scanning is now multi-threaded, and a lot faster because of it.