Fastest way to poll subfolders?

[SkyFrontier]

Hi, folks. I'm trying to keep up with (not that) recent improvements but one thing is particularly bugging me so here it goes:

what's the fastest method to scan a given folder after its subs?

For instance, Selection Stats for a certain subfolder has
Count: 44.298 files, 1.125 folders
...
Total Bytes: 3,73 GB (4.003.358.210 bytes)

...which is not that much but it takes nearly 20 seconds to perform a first scan on it using a

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          folderreport("dirs", "r", "$cp", "r", , "<crlf>");

routine, which could be tolerable IF the key concept wasn't using this method several times a day on the most uncertain folders possible.

Thanks in advance.

@Don: is there a way to disable that status bar hints for ALL scanned folders? Practice shows me that that step alone speeds up things a lot...