Coping files and folders

[Joel]

Sounds cool. I've bookmarked your github hub link.

Just wondering with this:

// parallel foreach for regular files
foreach(fn ; taskPool.parallel(files,100)) {
     string dfn = destRoot ~ fn[srcLen..$];
     copy(fn,dfn);
}

What is the 100 number for?

On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 05:30:11 UTC, Jay Norwood wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 07:41:23 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
> wrote:
>
>> Someone posted code in these newsgroups of a parallel 
>> implementation of copy and remove.
>
> I posted a parallel implementation a while back, and also put 
> it on github.
>
> The parallel trick is to create the folder structure first, 
> then populate the folders with the files.  Best for ssd drives.
>
> I also wrote a copy version that orders file sequence on disk 
> efficiently, using write through, and posted it.  This speeds 
> up any subsequent file system operations done in the directory 
> order as if you have done a defrag. Great for hard drives, but 
> not needed for ssd.
>
> https://github.com/jnorwood