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in reply to Re^2: Performance Trap - Opening/Closing Files Inside a Loop
in thread Performance Trap - Opening/Closing Files Inside a Loop

Out of curiousity, did you test with the 'dir_index' feature flag set? It allows the filesystem to use hashed b-trees for lookups in large directories.

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