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i often felt KDE copying/moving/deleting is slow, which is why i decided to measure it...
So i did this little test.. cp a directory with lots of small files from ~/ to ~/some_subfolder
this is the result:
Copying with dolphin took 10 minutes.
Copying with cp -R took 3 minutes.
maybe anyone here has an explanation for this?
Last edited by Rasi (2008-04-11 13:46:13)
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IMHO the overhead is because of abstraction layer(s): KDE file handling offers you the opportunity also to copy from/to FTP or SMB or whatever. if the progress bar also shows you the name of the file just copied, it is another little overhead (you said there was lot of files)
haven't seen the KDE sources, this is just a guess: a classical speed vs. comfort tradeoff
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There's often an initial start-up cost too that may contribut. In order to give you the progress bar, it has to know in advance how many files are to be copied. If your folder has many files in many folders, this takes a bit of time, of course. CLI just gets on with it.
Last edited by arooaroo (2008-04-11 15:35:48)
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