Subject: Re: bug#35531: problem with ls in coreutils

From: Peter Edwards <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 10:01:40 +1000

Hi

Although this bug report seems to be a problem with the windows port
of ls, it reminded me of an interesting investigation into slow ls
speeds due to colorizing via the LS_COLORS environment variable.

See 
https://news.sherlock.stanford.edu/posts/when-setting-an-environment-variable-gives-you-a-40-x-speedup

I thought it an interesting case study.

Regards - PSDE