Re: Fast PHP way to find a file given the leftmost characters of the file name

From	James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: Fast PHP way to find a file given the leftmost characters of the file name
Date	2015-12-08 11:45 +0000
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On 07/12/2015 05:17, Matthew Carter wrote:
> James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 05/12/2015 19:45, Matthew Carter wrote:

...

>>> FWIW, I just tested in a directory with 50,000 files on a system with
>>> 1.5G RAM (and non-SD disk) and was able to get 190 matches when
>>> specifying the first 2 letters in 0.103 seconds using
>>> glob($letters.'*'), as well as similar results when specifying all the
>>> way to a single unique name.
>>
>> Thanks. Was that with GLOB_NOSORT included?

> Just the default glob call (I didn't make any optimization attempts,
> just wanted to get a general idea for myself).

Sure. Was just thinking that, depending on implementation, it may/should 
be faster as it omits the sort step.

James

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Fast PHP way to find a file given the leftmost characters of the file name James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-05 17:39 +0000
  Re: Fast PHP way to find a file given the leftmost characters of the file name Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2015-12-05 19:37 +0100
  Re: Fast PHP way to find a file given the leftmost characters of the file name Markus Heinz <markus.heinz@uni-dortmund.de> - 2015-12-05 19:45 +0100
    Re: Fast PHP way to find a file given the leftmost characters of the file name Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> - 2015-12-05 14:45 -0500
      Re: Fast PHP way to find a file given the leftmost characters of the file name Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-12-05 15:53 -0500
      Re: Fast PHP way to find a file given the leftmost characters of the file name James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-06 00:50 +0000
        Re: Fast PHP way to find a file given the leftmost characters of the file name Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> - 2015-12-07 00:17 -0500
          Re: Fast PHP way to find a file given the leftmost characters of the file name James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-08 11:45 +0000

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