Enumeration Through $MFT Records? (Master File Table) NTFS Madness

[AceInfinity]

I've been doing some research today, and after reading bibles of code. It's been pointed to me that the enumerating the Master File Table grants you quicker iteration through the Windows file system directories and files by about an estimated 10 times that of most other methods. For an $MFT record there's 2 file id's; for the actual file, and for the directory in $MFT.

I've been using a good resource to learn about it, but this seems a bit of a stretch from first glance lol.

http://ntfs.com/

Anybody ever done anything with this before?