import headaches/gripes

[Pearu Peterson]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Paul Prescod wrote:

> I think there are two reasons:
> 
>  1. Even checking file dates has a performance cost. It involves going
> to the hard disk after all. Code like this isn't rare in Python

I think this is not true in Linux where recently read files stay in
memory buffer so that later access to the files does not involve
(physical) actions on the hard disk. Don't know if Windows has such a
feature..

Regards,
	Pearu