On 2019-02-16 19:24:56 +0000, mark lewis -> Wilfred van Velzen said:
>
> i do recall, on DOS systems, that there was a major slowdown of
> scanning files which JAM brought to the forefront... the problem was
> actually in the file system and the way that the OS managed FAT* areas
> with large numbers of files... folks thought they were putting (eg) 400
> message areas in one directory but they didn't realize they were really
> putting 1600 files in one directory... splitting the areas into
> directories with less than 255 _files_ (63 JAM areas) per directory
> sped the processing up by at least a magnitude...

Luckily those limitations no longer exist :-)

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