[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Avoid stat call to determine is_directory if possible

[Allan McRae]

On 06/10/10 08:37, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Dan McGee<dpmcgee at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> And looking closer at my numbers, did we not lose time here? If you
>> through the read() calls out (which I left in only because that was
>> the top time user), I should do some new timings or someone else
>> should as well...
>
> Slower it is! Non-truncated test output below after two warm up runs of each.
>

I just replicated the same result.  It is even worse if you drop all 
caches before running the strace.

Allan