I'm just wondering..

I started up limewire about 3 hours ago.
Defined my shares and left the computer "idle"
with no workload but the hashing of the files.

That was 3 hours ago. It's gotten to about 6500 files now,
still not complete, with about 1500 to go.

My computer is a 1,1GhzAMD with 256MBram and ATA100/ultra-scsi disks currently on a win32 system (xp) with javaVM 1.31
and frankly:
**** I don't quite see why this should take so long?!?!?!? ****

It's a little annoying. I'm not saying that the Java-IO-interface deserves a good pat on the back for speed and agility, but what the hell ?!?

I notice that it takes longer in directories with "huge" files. Do you open the entire file?! If so, WHY are you doing this?
Isn't it enough to open the header of the file ??

Are there any alternative methods to the java approach that may be incorporated in a standalone (REAL (c/c++/asm)) program ?

By the way: The client is on a good path. A few months ago I found it rather unusable ! KEEP UP THE GOÒD WORK!

Best regards from a
Slightly bored user