Speeding up DCD in big projects

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:32:39AM -0700, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> Which also begs the question, *why* does it even throw in the first
> place.  The non-existence of a file is a normally-expected outcome of
> isFile/isDir, throwing in that case seems excessively heavy-handed.
> It's probably a case of bad API design.
[...]

There is the workaround of writing:

	if (f.exists && f.isDir) ...

but it's ugly and involves an extra unnecessary syscall roundtrip.

Basically, this kind of API design is just hideous. I propose we remove
the throw from isDir/isFile.


T

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