[issue15200] Faster os.walk

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> This looks like the kind of optimization that depends hugely on what
> kernel you're using.

Agreed.
Also, I'm worried that there might be subtle differences between walk() and fwalk() which could come and bite users if we silently redirect the former to the latter.

(for the record, I get a 15% speedup on this Linux box)

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