From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:52:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Windows support
Message-ID: <45446C9F-F33E-4D47-9484-E92D36BB803E@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707251131540.3607@woody.linux-foundation.org>

El 25/7/2007, a las 20:43, Linus Torvalds escribió:

> I think cygwin may add some overhead, but people should really realize
> that Linux is quite often an order of magnitude faster (or more) than
> other systems on some very basic operations.
>
> That's especially true for filesystem operations. We really are  
> just that
> good.
>
> Really simple things like stat/open/read/write/close are just damn  
> fast on
> Linux. To the point where you really do notice it when you compare to
> other systems. If something takes hours on Linux, and it's very
> filesystem-intensive, I'm not at all surprised that it might take  
> days on
> Windows.
>
> (OS X is probably better than Windows when it comes to filesystem  
> ops, but
> their memory management absolutely sucks, and I can pretty much  
> guarantee
> that their filesystem operation latency doesn't hold a candle to  
> Linux,
> so while I'd expect git to perform "pretty well" on OS X, it's still
> going to be slower than on Linux)

Would be very interesting to see some "scientific" benchmarks of Git  
performance on the different platforms.

Anyone got an Intel Mac with Windows and Linux installed on it as well?

Cheers,
Wincent