in reply to Re^2: Improving SQL speed
in thread Improving SQL speed

Just to compare speed: I have an MP3 library on network attached storage which I access through WiFi, so it is not terribly fast. It contains 5900 MP3-songs in 500 folders and is 35 GB large. Indexing it with MP3::Find and MP3::Find::DB (using an SQLite database) took 3022 seconds, so it is almost 2 seconds per song songs per second. I am sure if the songs are on a local harddisk, the speed would be higher. The processor never maxed-out, so the bottle-neck is most probably in the network and/or harddisk.

Given these circumstances it seems therefore you have indeed some room to improve the speed of your script.

Update: fixed typo.

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