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apitman on May 14, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextc...

> Enumerating files is slow but that is not a major concern when the use-case is a background sync

Slow means it's probably burning a lot of CPU, and that is a problem for background tasks, especially on mobile.

tadfisher on May 14, 2025 [–]

No, the call is going through ContentProvider, which happens over Binder IPC, which entails context switching and other I/O overhead. Compared to local file operations (java.io and friends) this is massive; compared to anything else your device does, it's not a big deal at all, and it's not CPU-bound.

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