Re: NT directory traversal speed on 25K files on Cygwin

From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date: Feb 27, 2006, 18:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20060227183417.GA17978@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20060227183049.GA13195@nospam.com>

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:30:49PM +0100, Rutger Nijlunsing wrote:

Show 6 quoted lines

>However, the point I was trying to make was that git might be sped up
>by a magnitude (although not all of the magnitudes in comparison to
>Linux) by looking at why the file IO is this slow: Windows' file IO is
>_not_ the only reason. Using a different/new/better fitted interface
>to Cygwin or Win32 for a specific git task might help, although I have
>no clue what or how.

I'm going to revisit Cygwin's file I/O soon to see if I can figure out what's adding the overhead and see if it really is inavoidable. It's been a while since I've gone through that exercise so it should prove instructive.

cgf

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.