Re: deleting files
"Luuk" <Luuk@invalid.lan> wrote in message
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On 28-01-11 20:59, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 28-01-2011 14:34, Luuk wrote:
On 28-01-11 20:00, Roedy Green wrote:
I wrote a program to tidy up my hard disk. I run it as administrator.
It tells me there are a fair number of junk files I cannot delete. I
have a utility, presumably written in C, that much more rapidly scans
my drive for junk and manages to wipe out much of the junk I could
not.
I curious if anyone has experimented and could tell me:
1. why in the C utility is so much faster than my utility. My code is
basically just a bunch of File.list() with filters. What Java doing to
dither?
2. What is the utility doing to let it kill more files?
Whats the name of that utility, and how does you java-source look like
C is compiled code, and runs faster/more-optimized than Java which is
byte-compiled (as i remember correctly) to be platform independend, so
there a penalty at the last step....
The Java byte code gets JIT compiled to native code, so that
should not be a problem.
But this program should not be CPU bound anyway, so it does not
matter.
Yes, i got the terms mixed up.....
But, like Lew sad, things in C get optimized quicker wit
plaform-specific calls..
I believe what Lew really said is that a Windows-specific program might be
using low-level, Windows-specific calls that the Windows JVM does not use.
Or it might be as simple as the C program being multi-threaded and the Java
one being single-threaded.
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