Re: [PATCH] Draft for xattr support

[James Youngman]

On 4/4/07, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> [taking this to bug-findutils]
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:40:05AM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure what the relative performance cost is of the functions
> > get_attr() and so forth. I would not be surprised to see that they
> > were about as fast as access(), perhaps a little slower. So I guess
> > this needs an entry in "enum EvaluationCost".
>
> Noted.

These things can be difficult to measure accurately, but it's worth
some work I think.

James.