[dokuwiki] Re: Reflexion on metafiles
- From: Michael Klier <chi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:17:01 +0200
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:34:40PM +0200, YoBoY wrote:
> After some tests, it appears that the glob function give us a constant
> 50% improvement in speed, no real memory difference and a similar
> quantity of disk access.
>
> A mechanism based on file_exists could give a better speed improvement
> with a constant time response (more than 90% on a small directory) and
> not depending on the number of files in the directories.
>
> Without considering my particular case of use on a nfs file system with
> a meta directory containing more than 12000 files, passing to a glob is
> a good choice. But we can do a better job by controlling exactly what we
> want to delete without scanning an entire directory to find these files.
I see. One sulution I could imagine would be to have a list of known metafiles
and allow plugins to register their own types via an action event
METAFILE_REGISTER which would be triggered in in metaFiles() maybe. But on the
other hand, that sounds like a bit too much too me.
Regards,
Michael
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