From: Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Magit slow on Windows
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 12:37:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bs1umrc8bm.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83y5ozxnzd.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Kevin Yu <yujie052@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 13:46:53 +0800
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> > Which is what? msysgit or the Cygwin git?
>>
>> msysgit.
>
> Then I think this is wrong: you should see
>
> c:/git/bin/git.exe
>
> Invoking git through a Windows shell script incurs an unnecessary
> slowdown. You should start Emacs from the shell that knows about the
> msysgit installation, to get correct behavior.
>
> 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.
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-11 10:37 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 [this message]
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
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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