non-recursive status of a directory?

[Talden]

> On a Mozilla tree with 55,000 files 'bzr status' was taking 2 seconds. I
> don't
> consider that excruciating.

On my most active branch with a 650MB working tree of 20,000 files in
3,600 folders I get 3 seconds on my NTFS formatted 7200rpm laptop
hard-drive under WinXP if the folder is already cached - if it's not
cached (or worse, python and bzr aren't yet cached) the time is > 10
seconds.

If delays to get any current icons are always 2+ seconds in explorer
then I think that's too long.  Of course if the system is smart enough
to keep bzr and python files in cache and keep and maintain status
information in memory for a reasonable period after a first peek then
perhaps this is less of a concern.

--
Talden