Screenshot from a Sysprof flamegraph, showing about half of the time spent on determining the file contents types, and potentially half of the time creating the cells to display them

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   Jeff Fortin T. (nekohayo@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 00:50:26 JST Jeff Fortin T.

   After many more hours of testing and investigation on Saturday night, then three more hours last night to analyze and summarize that discussion's insights, here are my latest findings on the @gnome file manager's "slow cold-loading of the view's contents for folders with many files" performance issue :blobsweats:

   https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3374#note_2353755
   I has the potential to be as fast as Thunar.

   I bet it would speed up all views, even search.

   #Nautilus #GNOMEFiles #Sysprof #performance #GNOME #Linux #Thunar