Re: Creating tempfile takes too long: GNAT or Windows bug?

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

M�rio Amado Alves wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> Creating a temporary file (see test code below) is taking the
> unreasonable time of 30+ seconds on Windows XP (with GNAT 3.14p) on my
> laptop. Has someone had this sort of problem?

I believe this problem has been discussed before in
this group. Perform a Google search, and you might
get additional information on this.

Another possibility is that your temp directory has 100's, if
not 1000's of leftover temp files in it. I experienced this
problem with my family's Win98 system because one piece of
software creates a temp file everytime it runs (I havn't
determined which it is), but fails to clean them up (ain't
commercial software wonderful?)  I ended up creating a
simple C program that periodically cleans out any of these
that are n days old. This improved the general performance
of all applications affected, _significantly_.  There were
literally, several 1000 of temp files, mostly empty. This
causes extremely long directory searches.

But I seem to recall there was another reason for the
performance penalty as well. Search Google.
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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