Path: csiph.com!eeepc.pasdenom.info!news.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mike Schilling" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: deleting files Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:20:58 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 1 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 04:20:47 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="XhSt6W404CDU0qmwmmQuZA"; logging-data="2228"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX199IHSOzhPZhIbWB10eNP6JundAQ0dgZNg=" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 In-Reply-To: X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 Importance: Normal Cancel-Lock: sha1:BUWSHhgkUyN+e2+r1fmf1uM+hOs= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:25926 "Dagon" wrote in message news:hsrb18-v04.ln1@dagon.net... > > My WAG is that the utility is using OS-specific calls and knowledge that > are > faster than the more general abstractions in the JDK. Mine too. (And given how long it takes to delete a big directory tree in the Explorer, I'd guess that the utility is faster than that too.)