Changes (by Roland Haas):

assignee:	Roland Haas (was anonymous)
responsible:	[] (was [])

The current time stamp mechanism in simfactory creates files with a scheme "timestamp-NUMBER", where NUMBER denotes the time. Looking for such files requires iterating over the directory.

Instead, we can use a fixed file name, and use the file creation time as time stamp. (We can additionally write the time stamp into the file, probably in a human readable form.) Accessing this time stamp is a single "stat" operation that should be quicker.

This method has the additional advantage that the time stamps always have the same file name.

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Ticket URL: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/336/increase-timestamp-speed