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Re: (seeks while reading) Re: Performance, argh
Sorry I scrambled the attributions...
>>>>> "Maciej" == Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>> That said, guile does seem to spend an inordinate amount of
>> time in system calls (on PPro200, Linux 2.2.x, libc5, with
>> guile installed in a directory read via NFS):
Maciej> That's a lot of access, stat and fstat calls there, and
Maciej> those are expensive as syscalls go.
It seems like the file names in the search path could be cached.
Clark