Question: How long does scanning typically take?

andrebrait / 1g1r-romset-generator

A small utility that uses No-Intro DATs to generate 1G1R ROM sets

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Question: How long does scanning typically take? #20

Closed Spokehedz closed 4 years ago

Spokehedz commented 4 years ago

I'm just wondering if there is something wrong with my setup because it seems to be taking a very long time to scan.

andrebrait commented 4 years ago

It depends a lot.

What computer do you have? Is the folder being scanned on a SSD/flash drive or a hard disk? Are you pointing the input directory at a folder thar has many subfolders/big subdirectory structure? Are there zipped files? Any particular file is taking longer?

From the way I sort the files to be scanned, the first ones usually take longer than the last ones because I distribute the bigger files among the threads first.

Spokehedz commented 4 years ago

Ah, apparently running it from the CMD/powershell rather than the IDE speeds it up to seconds, versus an hour plus...

Well don't I feel stupid.