From: David Kastrup Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:22:59 GMT Subject: Re: Git performance on OS X Message-ID: <85prskv6l8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > Taking three seconds for the warm-cache case for just 50,000 files is > ludicrous. That's about an order-and-a-half slower than what I see. > > Maybe my CPU is faster too (2.66GHz Core 2), but the thing is, Linux > really does tend to outperform others at a lot of these kinds of loads. > System calls are fast to begin with, and the Linux directory cache kicks > ass, if I do say so myself. > > OS X doth suck. Oh, but OS X does utf8 unification and case folding: so it is actually doing quite a bit more than Linux. Of course, doing that sucks for even more reasons, but it is not an accident. It is intentional brain damage. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum