Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat implementation based on Win32 API, and make stat use that implementation too.

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

Hi,

On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:

quoted

The conversion of the FileTime to unix time_t is far more heavy.

Really?  If so, we might consider storing FILETIME->dwHightDateTime and 
->dwLowDateTime in the index.

But I doubt it.  AFAICT _getting_ at the stat data is the expensive thing 
in Windows, not a 64-bit addition, subtraction and division.

64-bit division conceivably could be somewhat expensive, but it sounds
like it should not be much compared to the cost of a system call.
What is the code doing that division?

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