From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Magit slow on Windows
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 19:54:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vck2zjqo.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: B04F3BCE-E3C7-4EFC-9F76-82F0D200CF0A@bbheim.de
Bastian Bechtold <basti@bbheim.de> writes:
>> So it is not that NTFS is slower than ext4/whatever for all relevant use
>> cases, but that git is fine-tuned for the GNU/Linux filesystems. Plus,
>> creating processes is much slower on Windows than on GNU/Linux (that's
>> an undeniable fact.) As magit runs several commands for several
>> often-used operations, that makes a big difference.
>
> However, its performance is pretty fine on OSX, even though HFS is
> probably the worst filesystem that is still in non-legacy (FAT) use. I
> mean, a global write-lock, seriously?
The case of OSX (or any unix-like system, for that matter) is more
related to GNU/Linux than to MS-Windows: fast process creation, no
intermediate emulation layer, C system library closely tied to the OS
API, etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-11 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-10 12:06 Magit slow on Windows Bastian Bechtold
2012-05-10 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-11 5:35 ` Kevin Yu
2012-05-11 5:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-11 5:46 ` Kevin Yu
2012-05-11 5:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-11 6:08 ` Kevin Yu
2012-05-11 6:35 ` Yann Hodique
2012-05-11 7:34 ` Kevin Yu
2012-05-11 7:45 ` Bastian Bechtold
2012-05-11 8:41 ` Bastian Bechtold
2012-05-11 8:44 ` Kevin Yu
2012-05-11 10:37 ` Richard Riley
2012-05-11 11:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-11 15:02 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-05-11 17:40 ` Bastian Bechtold
2012-05-11 17:54 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2012-05-12 0:09 ` Miles Bader
2012-05-12 2:28 ` Richard Stallman
2012-07-20 19:10 ` Bohdan Makohin
2012-07-21 2:43 ` Richard Stallman
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