Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat implementation based on Win32 API, and make stat use that implementation too.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 2, 2007, 17:44 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709021843270.28586@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46DAED4F.2080407@trolltech.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:

> The conversion of the FileTime to unix time_t is far more heavy.

Really? If so, we might consider storing FILETIME->dwHightDateTime and ->dwLowDateTime in the index.

But I doubt it. AFAICT _getting_ at the stat data is the expensive thing in Windows, not a 64-bit addition, subtraction and division.

Ciao, Dscho

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