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		niek_pas 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I made an ls alternative for my personal ... Not trying to “gotcha” you, but I would imagine that 10x the CPU of ls is still very little, or am I wrong?

jeffbee 9 months ago [–]

In the case of the 500k tree, `lla` needs 2.5 seconds, so it's pretty substantial.

echoangle 9 months ago | [–]

Is listing a lot of files really CPU-limited? Isn’t the problem IO speed?

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