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After emptying a directory with 60,000 small files, ls -l still shows large directory size?

Here is the ls -l after I did rm -f inside the cur and new directories. I expected the directory "sizes" to shrink back to the default "4096". [root@example Maildir]# pwd ...
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Why might `ls --color=always` be slow for a small directory?

For a certain directory DIR on my system, the ls --color=always takes about 8 seconds, although it contains less than 10 files and subdirectories. Without the color argument it takes no time. Why ...