Re: When should a wheel be reinvented

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•Re^2: When should a wheel be reinvented by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 29, 2004 at 19:15 UTC
Or File::Finder. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re^2: When should a wheel be reinvented by autarch (Hermit) on Jun 30, 2004 at 06:12 UTC
Of course, what I really would love to see is something that had an API like File::Find::Rule (or File::Finder) but that didn't wrap File::Find. Why? Because File::Find gets all the files/directories/etc first, and then starts calling its callback. When dealing with a very large tree, it's memory-inefficient, and you end up waiting forever for the first call to happen. So annoying.	[reply]