Comment by bigiain
4 years ago
Actually, I just realised. This is (probably a small part of) why "calculate all sizes" in Mac finder windows is so slow. I already mentioned Apple in FAANG, but I guess someone at Microsoft and people who work on Linux file brokers care too. And whoever maintains the -h flag codepaths in all the Unix-like utils that support it?
Confused what this has to do with calculating file sizes. Time spent computing file sizes is dwarfed by I/O, right?