From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bastian Bechtold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Magit slow on Windows Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 19:40:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <6C45C785-8275-46B8-9D1E-FF8D2B52C3E2@bbheim.de> <83mx5gyqht.fsf@gnu.org> <84k40jz3eg.fsf@163.org> <83zk9fxoma.fsf@gnu.org> <84pqabtgky.fsf@gmail.com> <83y5ozxnzd.fsf@gnu.org> <87zk9ezrpj.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336758050 32442 80.91.229.3 (11 May 2012 17:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 17:40:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 11 19:40:49 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SStpg-00077z-Dt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2012 19:40:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60625 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SStpf-0004FZ-R6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2012 13:40:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47675) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SStpd-0004FU-Ii for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2012 13:40:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SStpb-0002sw-FH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2012 13:40:45 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de ([80.67.29.23]:57156) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SStpb-0002si-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2012 13:40:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [77.3.220.210] (helo=[192.168.1.13]) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1SStpY-00089c-Mk; Fri, 11 May 2012 19:40:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87zk9ezrpj.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-Mailer: iPad Mail (9B206) X-Df-Sender: YmFzdGlAYmJoZWltLmRl X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.67.29.23 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150445 Archived-At: On 11.05.2012, at 17:02, =C3=93scar Fuentes wrote: > Richard Riley writes: >=20 >>> But I'm not sure this will solve your problem. The Windows filesystem >>> is slower than Linux filesystems, especially with a cold cache, and >>> nothing, not even Emacs, can change that. >>=20 >> Not in anyway that would cause any human recognisable delay. Suggesting >> that speed of the file system is in any way contributing to this issue >> is somewhat silly and misleading and introducing fud. >=20 > git is heavily optimized for GNU/Linux. It exploits the APIs and use > cases that performs better there. Msysgit is not optimized for > MS-Windows and, on addition, MSYS/Cygwin, which git depends on, > introduces an intermediate layer that slows down certain operations > quite a bit. >=20 > 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 t= he worst filesystem that is still in non-legacy (FAT) use. I mean, a global w= rite-lock, seriously?=