slow listing of network drives files with regex tc plugin

[mastabog]

Very nasty bug. I posted fully about this here:

http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=252175#252175

[ghisler(Author)]

I will check it. Sounds like TC is getting the names individually for each file for some unknown reason.

[mastabog]

But even so it's weird because the same config is not slow on local drives ... it's only slow on network drives. Or do you mean that TC is requesting the name of each individual file *from the network*? If yes then that's nasty

Maybe it's worth checking that this behaviour is not occuring anywhere else ... I'm seeing similar slowness with the SFTP and FTP connections but there it may actually be the connection.

[ghisler(Author)]

Locally names are cached by the NTFS file system, so you wouldn't see a big slowdown when they are requested individually.

[mastabog]

Very true, I forgot about the OS file cache.

I guess the fix is easy by getting the dir entries in memory first and then apply the regex filters. Not the entire list of dir entries, only the part that TC displays in the pane.

[ghisler(Author)]

Could you try the same with RC5, please? It should be much better if you don't use any other fields for sorting.