Created attachment 123571 [details]
log files in zip file

All my files are on a local disk as advised at 

http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqScanningAndIndexingPerformanceHints#Use_fast_filesystem.2Fdisk

I have turned off drive indexing and virus scanning on project directories and NetBeans cache directories.

My disk is a fast IDE drive, WDC WD1600AAJB-00J3A0, a generation before faster SATA drives. File system is NTFS, physical memory 3GB, Processor speed is 1.9GHZ on a single AMD CPU.

So the system is slow by today's standards.

With 26 projects in the project explorer, I get 146 messages like

WARNING [org.openide.filesystems.FileUtil]: FileUtil.normalizeFile(C:\bt\java\enum\Enum) took 1,062 ms. Result is C:\bt\java\enum\Enum

I checked the files in the messages against the API documentation at:

http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-openide-filesystems/org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html#normalizeFile%28java.io.File%29

If we accept that my system is really that slow, then still the number of calls seem excessive wrt the purpose of the API.

I can see that in a number of cases, the method is called for project internal files such as:

- package directories nested inside source directories
- Java source files nested inside source directories e.g. session beans, entity beans
- class files nested inside build directories

Also for some files such as Gee1Wanted.java there are multiple successive log entries e.g. 8 times.

Perhaps performance can be improved by eliminating calls to FileUtil.normalizeFile in these cases where the file names don't need to be normalized