Fixed performance bug in UIOP:DIRECTORY-FILES

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Faré <fahree at gmail.com> writes:

> I bumped ASDF to 3.1.7.1 after I fixed a performance bug in
> directory-files that made it quadratic instead of linear, due to some
> remove-duplicates used for logical-pathnames.
> The fix was to only use this quadratic behavior for LPNs. If you use
> LPNs, you deserve to lose on large directories. LPNs are for legacy
> Lisp code with relatively few files, only.

If you mean that REMOVE-DUPLICATES is quadratic, then it's bad in
itself (we know better algorithms for linear REMOVE-DUPLICATES);
There's no reason to disparage logical pathnames, they're very nice.

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