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From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Matt D. / MAC FST
Message-ID: <12826@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
Date: 4 Feb 90 12:01:17 GMT
References: <9001311847.AA29777@apple.com> <12775@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM> <1990Feb3.175459.11564@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
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In article <1990Feb3.175459.11564@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher) writes:
>In article <12775@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM> cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson) writes:
>>In article <9001311847.AA29777@apple.com> NOSES@DBNINF5.BITNET (Achim Patzner) writes:
>>[...hfs fst...]
>Inside Macintosh vol 4 and 5 have a detailed discussion of the HFS B-Trees.
>Trees are used because of their efficiency in terms of searching.  They are
>nothing exotic, they've been used in Computer Science for a while.  They
>just take a little studying.

Ah, okay. I'll check those out. But efficiency in terms of searching?  
Why does it take 2 1/2 minutes to open a system folder with ~130 items
in it? (on a IIx w/8 megs)  Gosh, talk about getting tired of watch cursors...

>Rick Fincher
>rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu

--Chan
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