Caching jobs

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 22:11 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > The parser is a string one; so it could be faster by being binary ...
> > but it wouldn't actually buy you anything; you'd have to re-parse the
> > text files on boot to make sure they hadn't been changed while the
> > computer was off.
> 
> Storing the last file modification time inside the "binary blob" might
> be good enough?
> 
It's incredibly expensive to walk a tree of files and stat() them ...
shockingly.

Scott
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