Is there a workaround for Java's poor performance on walking huge directories?

Question

I am trying to process files one at a time that are stored over a network. Reading the files is fast due to buffering is not the issue. The problem I have is just listing

Answer 1

How about using File.list(FilenameFilter filter) method and implementing FilenameFilter.accept(File dir, String name) to process each file and return false.

I ran this on Linux vm for directory with 10K+ files and it took <10 seconds.

import java.io.File;  
import java.io.FilenameFilter;

public class Temp {
    private static void processFile(File dir, String name) {
        File file = new File(dir, name);
        System.out.println("processing file " + file.getName());
    }

    private static void forEachFile(File dir) {
        String [] ignore = dir.list(new FilenameFilter() {
            public boolean accept(File dir, String name) {
                processFile(dir, name);
                return false;
            }
        });
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        long before, after;
        File dot = new File(".");
        before = System.currentTimeMillis();
        forEachFile(dot);
        after = System.currentTimeMillis();
        System.out.println("after call, delta is " + (after - before));
    }  
}