alt Hacker NewsThat is a fun exercise, but I imagine the time to evaluate the conditional expression is a tiny fraction, just a percent or less, than the time it takes to make the file system calls.
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CerryuDu • yesterday at 4:34 PM
... not to mention the time it takes to load directory entries and inodes when the cache is cold.
For many cases you don't even need to make stat() call to determine whether or not the file is a directory (d_type specifically can tell it: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/readdir.3.html). That's what allows find(1) to be so quick