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Old 06-23-2007, 01:16 AM
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Using filenamecache is slowing you down?
Well it is a workaround around the damned slow NTFS which can take minutes to list just a few thousand files. But Graal needs to know where it can find the graphics, so it is remembering the filenames and modification time in FILENAMECACHE.txt and saves it a few second after the download of files has finished. The next time Graal is starting it already knows the location of the files and doesn't need to scan the whole folder. Accessing a file can still take some moments if the NTFS drive is huge and fragmented, can't do something about that though.
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