From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:35:55 GMT
Subject: Re: cygwin, 44k files: how to commit only index?
Message-ID: <20061207193555.GD12143@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061207192632.GC12143@spearce.org>

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Its Cygwin/NTFS.  lstat() is slow.  readdir() is slow.  I have the
> same problem on my Cygwin systems.

Just to be clear, I'm not trying to blame Cygwin here.

Windows' dir command is slow.  Windows Explorer is slow while
browsing directories.  Eclipse chugs hard while doing any directory
scans (it normally runs very fast if its not rescanning the entire
directory structure).  The drive is just plain slow.

Yea, I know, get a faster disk... but some bean counters don't
believe that a $50 more expensive disk could ever save enough time
to warrant the extra $50 captial expenditure...

I spend at least an hour a week waiting for enough IO to finish so
that the mouse pointer will move again.  *sigh*

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