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

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 2, 2006, 13:40 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0603020540uf58c2c3x7fc8b3b086444803@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060227184544.GB13195@nospam.com>

On 2/27/06, Rutger Nijlunsing <rutger@nospam.com> wrote:

> I'm not saying Cygwin is bad (actually, I'm installing on every
> Windows PC I get my hand on ;), but using Cygwin for all file IO
> instead of native Windows IO makes git a magnitude slower on Windows

By "slow filesystem" I actually meant the native filesystem access. Cygwin does make it 6 times slower, that's right, and this can be considered a disaster of course, but not as big as the windows api.

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