SpanMode uses incorrect terminology (breadth)

[Mehrdad]

On Tuesday, 18 September 2012 at 15:19:08 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/18/12 10:25 AM, David Piepgrass wrote:
>> Actually I prefer breadth-first search when searching the file 
>> system. When I search an entire volume, inevitably the 
>> (depth-first) search gets stuck in a few giant, deep 
>> directories like the source code of Mono or some other cave of 
>> source code, you know, something 12 directories deep with 
>> 100,000 files in it. A breadth-first search would be more 
>> likely to find the thing I'm looking for BEFORE going 
>> spelunking in these 12-deep caves.
>
> Yes, that was my intent too.
>
> Andrei



I just wanted to point out, BFS is generally a pretty BAD idea 
for searching a file system.

You instead probably want to implement DFS, and then alter it 
slightly to use iterative deepening instead of doing plain 
breadth-first search.

That way you won't be keeping open a million OS file handles.