Eric Arseneau <earseneau at exobox.com> is widely believed to have written:

> There seems to be a slight performance problem with this method:
[snip]
> Would this not be more efficient ?  It looks like the latest release could
> use this same trick.
It's definitely an improvement and probably needs replicating in several
other place where the tacky trick (open a file to see if it exists) is
done. The other way of seeing if a file exists (implemented in the
directory hierarchy) is just as bad; get a list of all the files in a
dir and then pattern match on the entire list.

Time to redo it all... separate the name from the stream, add some more
capable prims, clean it up.

tim

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Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
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