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From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>
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To: terry@cs.weber.edu, wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Optimizing CVS?
Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, roberto@blaise.ibp.fr
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In the case of CVS, most of the stat's it does, apparantly, are to
determine the file type.  In 4.4, this information is in the dirent
structure; apparantly, if you convince cvs to use this information,
it gets much faster.

Sean.