Comment 3 for bug 966963

Hi Daniel,

thanks for trying out the patch - I have retested and noticed that the improvements weren't as large as I initially thought - probably due to caching as you mentioned, but there was still a fairly significant increase:

I tested on lp:mixxx (optimize=9) with 32bit Ubuntu Lucid, 2GB ram, AMD Athlon X2

4742 tracks on external drive across about 500 subdirectories.

                        Initial Scan Rescan 1 Rescan 2

Test 1 Without patch 220s 94s 96s
Test 2 Without patch 94s 88s 89s

Test 3 With patch 65s 59s 58s
Test 4 With patch 64s 70s* 55s

Test 5 Without patch 60s 78s 77s

* = I may have slowed this scan down inadvertently by performing other actions on the computer.

I have the log file of each of these 5 runs. I am quite surprised by the initial scan speed of test 5 (when I went back to without the patch, to ensure the improvement was not just in caching).