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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: ls(1) speeded up
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Date: Tue, 28-May-85 17:58:21 EDT
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By playing some tricks with memory allocation inside ls(1), it has been
speeded up significantly.  The difference is too small to measure for
small directories, but is quite noticeable for big ones.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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