From: John Wood <John.Wood_at_royalblue.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:24:52 -0400

>> To do that, you need a temporary storing space for those, let's say, 500
names. And then we would have gained nothing, since we need to allocate
space for that temporary storage. <<

Yeah but it's temporary. You can free it once you're done sorting. It won't
interfere with anything... it'll just come and go in the blink of an eye...
:)

-----Original Message-----
From: Linus Nielsen Feltzing [mailto:linus_at_haxx.se]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 2:02 PM
To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se
Subject: RE: max 200 entries in a dir. why?


On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:51:33 -0400, John Wood wrote:
> > > Read the each folder name as we display them? Spinning up the
> drive every time we scroll the display? <<
>
> Well no, you'd build a page of 200 names and cache that. When you
> exhaust the first 200 names, then you build the second page. You'll
> get a spin whenever you cross page boundaries. But like I said,
> that's better than not displaying more than a page at all...

Still, you must read the whole directory and sort it before you can
cache 200 of the files in it. To do that, you need a temporary
storing space for those, let's say, 500 names. And then we would have
gained nothing, since we need to allocate space for that temporary
storage.

/Linus



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