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Re: findutils support in 1.7.0
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> However, it's still strange that the path length (number of subdirs?)
> goes quadratic into the timing behaviour of a core OS routine to access
> a file. The potential regression function evaluated by OpenOffice Calc
> is
>
> 5/3
> pathlength
> ------------- usecs
> 100
>
> and it appears to be a bit forgiving.
Using your "spreadsheet" from above, I get a very good fit using pure quadratic:
0.000558 pathlength^2 usec
the residuals are ~100 usec and appear random.
Lev