Fixes T4366. Two years ago, Facebook put 16,000 files in a directory. Today, the page has nearly loaded.

Paginate large directories.

• Viewed home and browse views in Git, Mercurial and Subversion.

I put an artificially small page size (5) on home:

I pushed 16,000 files to a directory and paged through them. Here's the last page, which rendered in about 200ms:

Our behavior is a bit better than GitHub here, which shows only the first 1,000 files, disables pagination, and can't retrieve history for the files: