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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga floppies (was: Re: Blitter vs. 80386)
Message-ID: <8808180059.AA05505@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 18 Aug 88 00:59:07 GMT
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:Amen to that.  The ONLY thing PC's do faster than the Amiga is
:directory listings and other wild-card-search related things. 

	Yah, but the fast file system really fixes the problem ... 
100+ entries/sec for directories.  No more problems!

	But one thing both the original and FFS use is that beloved
hash table...  You can put a dozen directories in your PATH and it only
takes an instant to search for commands, unlike an IBM.  And when you
really get down to it, I find openning files quickly MUCH more important
than scanning directories.

	Using an IBM-AT 386 @ 16MHz, it still takes up to three seconds to
go through about 200 entries (in the 4 or 5 directories I had in the path)
to find the executable I wanted.... In otherwords, a DISKBOUND operation.

	This problem does not occur with the Amiga and I frankly have never
had to think about the number, or ordering, of my path.

						-Matt