zit ls --long adds size, permission and text/binary, and the last of those reads every listed blob. On a large store the annotated forms cost ~18ms per file where the plain two-field listing costs ~0.09ms: measured on tcl, 0.20s plain against 38s for --size and 41s for --long. The cost scales with the STORE, not the listing (filed as zit#148).

Four callers read only .Name and threw the rest away: the About marker scan, a root check-in's file set, the doc index, and CI's file list. They use LsNames now, which runs the plain listing and caches it beside the annotated one.

The tree page and its warm still need the columns they display, so they are unchanged; that cost is the upstream issue's to fix. check-in: 78db482057 user: dmestas tags: trunk