[sldev] Cache speed experiment & results...

[Matthew Underwood]

If a compatibility flag is set then NTFS generates an 8.3 name based
on the filename.  You can often see the effects of this with the
old(er) office that had to have a shorter name in order to open the
file, it would create a temporary file (or link?) and open that.

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Argent Stonecutter
<secret.argent at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2008-06-04, at 02:46, Felix Duesenburg wrote:
>>
>> I don't know where I read that... someone tell me if it's just a rumour.
>> Can it be true that for reasons related to the historical evolution of
>> Windows, it's still a wee bit faster if filenames sticked to the old 8.3
>> convention?
>
> Not in NTFS. If you're using FAT32, it's possible. that would make it
> maybe...
>
> %CACHEDIR%\textures\55\0e\84\00e2\9b41d4\a7164466\55440000
>
> You still want the early levels to be limited to a maximum of 256 entries,
> otherwise you end up with the problem of tens of thousands of entries in a
> directory again.
>
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