Hi Roman,

From a previous discussion:

> 99% of scantime is pure hd access. A full MAME scan on Windows takes 7 seconds
> (with full usage of the diskcache). The bottleneck is the hd speed.
>
> WINE's MFC and hd emulation seems to be not the best/fastest.


Well, to have a comparaison, on my Wine/Ubuntu, the full scan took 150 seconds for a file (artwork.zip) on NTFS, and 126 secs on ext3. The same file is scanned on windows within (less than) 30 secs. The difference is huge.

That brings me to this question: do you plan to port clrmame on linux? I know it works very well with wine, but it works very slowly. And fastness, when scanning thousands of files, doesn't seems redundant.

What do you think? Is it a huge task?