Steam: Improve installed games scan time by scanning in parallel #417
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Following #416 I Investigated what could be the cause of the very slow scan of installed games.
Since I have a lot of games installed (680~), with the almost all of them installed on a HDD, scanning the games one by one caused this delay. This can be greatly improved by scanning games in parallel.
The benefit will be most noticeable in large libraries.
These are the results:
Current
Parallel scan with 2 parallelism
Parallel scan with 3 parallelism
The scans are simple and not exhaustive by any means but the benefit is evident. It's possible that SSDs could benefit from greater degrees of parallelism but that has the risk of being counter-productive in HDDs so I left it at 3 that showed great results during these tests.