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

If you need to eventually process all files, then having Iterable over String[] won't give you any advantage, as you'll still have to go and fetch the whole list of files.