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Re: Need efficient way to fetch 20 last modified files from folder

by philiprbrenan (Monk)
on Aug 30, 2012 at 18:51 UTC ( [id://990821]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Need efficient way to fetch 20 last modified files from folder

I think you would have to descend into C and use Windows API calls directly to get a further performance improvement. However, the cost to you in your time of doing such a project is unlikely to be repaid from the time saved. 2-3 seconds sounds pretty good on that basis.

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