a pretty exciting result for parallel D lang rmd following defrag by name

[Jay Norwood]

On Sunday, 8 April 2012 at 01:18:49 UTC, Jay Norwood wrote:
> in it.  Same 3.7 second delete.   I'll have to analyze what is 
> happening, but this is a huge improvement.   If it is just the 
> sequential LCN order of the operations, it may be that I can 
> just pre-sort the delete operations by the file lcn number and 
> get similar results.

I ran  rmd in the debugger to look at the order of entries being 
returned from the depth first search.  The directory entry list 
returned is sorted alphabetically  the same whether or not the 
sortByName() defrag script has been executed.

This article confirms that directory entries are sorted 
alphabetically.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995846.aspx

"Directory entries are sorted alphabetically, which explains why 
NTFS files are always printed alphabetically in directory 
listings."

I'll have to write something to dump the starting lcn for each 
directory entry and see if  the sortByName defrag is matching the 
DirEntries list exactly.