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EXTRA! EXTRA!
Hmmmmm....so the lister DR on the Fred Fish Disk thinks it's the
fastest possible lister?! Sorry.
Sorting a huge HD FFS directory with 247 filenames (25 chars each)
timed with a Swiss Made Tradition Stop Watch and timed 3
attempts for each and then averaged.
to sort to complete display size
------- ------------------- ----
WB13 list NO SORT AVAILABLE! 9972
DR -L 8.3 secs 20.0 secs 17104
newlist4 5.7 secs 18.7 secs 13484
ARP list 7.3 secs 18.5 secs 2500
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WB13 dir 14.4 secs 20.5 secs 8772
DR 8.3 secs 12.5 secs 17104
ARP dir 6.9 secs 12.0 secs 2200
newlist4 -q 5.7 secs 10.0 secs 13484
RESULTS: As you can see, DR is fast, but not the fastest. The author
should feel bad for labeling his program THE FASTEST, when
it isn't. I would never do a thing like that :-)
Close but no cigar, DR.
PLUSSSS......
Newlist has more options!
- Date ** Construction **
- a more compact Quick display
- ENV: support
- Character Filters (only dirs g-l lowercase only)
- Group Displays
- UNIX complex wildcards
- Smaller
- Faster
- Sort also by size (bytes, blocks, or keys)
- Flags, Flags, and more flags!
Now we now what the best lister is! So let's send a Tuitionware Buck!