Doug Way <dway at mailcan.com> wrote:

> MessageTally, it turns out that this is just slowness due to several 
> calls to #fileExists, which is known to be slow (on some platforms at 
> least).  This could probably be improved, see my messagetally attached 
> at the end of this email.
Yup, this checking for a file by enumerating a large directory is
crazy. I proposed a fix some time ago - I imagine it is in the BFAV
list somewhere.

tim
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