[Dwedit]

The one thing that really benefits from using NT Native API over Win32 is listing files in a directory. You get to use a 64KB buffer to get directory listing results, while Win32 just does the one at a time. 64KB buffer size means fewer system calls.

(Reading the MFT is still faster. Yes, you need admin for that)

[xfeeefeee]

Oh hey this is exactly why I made node-windows-readdir-fast - especially with the way node works, this makes reading filenames and length and times around 50x faster

https://github.com/xfeeefeee/node-windows-readdir-fast https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-windows-readdir-fast

Windows only of course, but the concept is sound. Was also fun benchmarking to find out that parsing a binary stream was faster than creating a ton of objects through the node api (or json deserialization)