A few measurements of stat()'s speed

[Bastiaan Veelo]

On Tuesday, 26 March 2019 at 18:06:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On a Linux moderately-loaded local directory (146 files) 
> mounted from an SSD drive, one failed stat() takes only about 
> 0.5 microseconds. That means e.g. if a module imports std.all 
> (which fails 142 times), the overhead accountable to failed 
> stat() calls is about 70 microseconds, i.e. negligible.

It could be interesting to know whether timings on Windows are 
more significant. If only I knew how to measure this within 10 
minutes...

Bastiaan.