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Re: How Slow is NeXTSTEP 3.0 w/ 8 megs ram?

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From: Allen B
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 14:07
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In article <HARDY.92Oct5222730@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu  
(Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
> One thing where there is a definite slow-down is in directory
> listings; ls -alt |more takes its sweet time compared to the lightning
> speed of ls -alt |more in 2.1 (again, can anyone confirm this?). 
> I have a feeling that the ls command has been changed (which caused my
> emacs to misbehave). 

No way.  The login and group lookups involved are much
faster, and the ls as a whole is too.  We've got huge passwd
and group files loaded and the speedup is quite
impressive.

A long ls of /etc used to take several minutes on our
NetInfo clients.  Now it scrolls by just fine.  

ab
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