'find' optimization

Question

'find ./ -name *.jpg'

I am trying to optimize 'find' command for the above statement.

method which handle the '-name' predicate in find implementation.

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static boolean

pred__name __common (const char *pathname, const char *str, int flags)

{

   boolean b;

   char *base = base_name (pathname);

   strip__trailing __slashes(base);

   b = fnmatch (str, base, flags) == 0;

   free (base);

   return b;

}

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since I am looking for file extensions and want to avoid the regular expression based string matching, I replaced 'b = fnmatch (str, base, flags) == 0;' with following statements

int strLen = strlen(base);

b = FNM_NOMATCH;

if  (strLen>=4 && (str[3] == base[strLen]) && 
    (str[2] == base[strLen -1]) && (str[1] ==   
    base[strLen-2]) && (str[0] == base[strLen-3]))

{

b = 0;

}

After this I expected some performance gain, but I don't see any kind of performance gain after the above change.

1. Is that I am doing some thing wrong?
2. is there a better way to optimize the 'find' to search only for file extensions?

Answer 1

I doubt that the regex matching is the bottleneck. Since find traverses the filesystem, the overhead is probably in disk seek times, and in case of an in-memory filesystem, in system calls and the resulting context switches.