multi-threaded execution

[smanders]

when there are a large number of files the app becomes unresponsive and can bring a system to it's knees

the execution of sorting could be multi-threaded to improve responsiveness and offload the main GUI thread

wxWidgets provides some multi-threading support, or boost::thread

• https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.1.0/overview_thread.html
• https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_67_0/doc/html/thread.html

[smanders]

numbers from Kevin 2020.11.23

• 14 minutes for 5,000 (357/minute)
• 45-60 minutes for 20,000 records (363/minute)
• about 3 hours total. 2 hours 40 minutes, 76,000+ pdf files (475/minute)

[smanders]

completed with v1.4 https://github.com/smanders/godric/compare/v1.3...v1.4

current stats

• 90,000 files on linux in 12 seconds
• 60,000 files on Windows takes around a minute

[smanders]

numbers from Kevin 2021.01.05 (with v1.4)

• 15,000 documents finished in about 8 min
• folder with 31,293 files, estimated time is 25:33