From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:33:02 GMT
Subject: Re: windows problems summary
Message-ID: <81b0412b0603020833j214556bek887c53a3ef43fd58@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0603021636020.30490@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On 3/2/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > 1. opened and mmaped files can't be removed or renamed
> >   (caused workaround with reading index in memory)
>
> It was not the locking which caused the workaround. It was the
> not-working. (I still have to find a Windows machine where git-whatchanged
> does not segfault without NO_MMAP.)

me too. It crashes everywhere here.

> > 4. non-unix permissions model
> >   (breaks x-attr)
> > 5. real slow filesystems and caching
> >   (makes everything slow. I noticed I'm trying to avoid git status!).
> >   Caused workaround with manual checkout)
> > 6. real slow program startup
> >   (makes everything slow, eventually may cause everything being put
> >   in one super-executable, just to avoid spawning new processes,
> >   with all associated problems. Makes scripting harder)
>
> Except for (4), these issues should be resolvable by the libifying effort.
>

How can it help with 5? Less accesses to index?