Re: NT directory traversal speed on 25K files on Cygwin

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:30:49PM +0100, Rutger Nijlunsing wrote:

However, the point I was trying to make was that git might be sped up
by a magnitude (although not all of the magnitudes in comparison to
Linux) by looking at why the file IO is this slow: Windows' file IO is
_not_ the only reason. Using a different/new/better fitted interface
to Cygwin or Win32 for a specific git task might help, although I have
no clue what or how.

I'm going to revisit Cygwin's file I/O soon to see if I can figure out
what's adding the overhead and see if it really is inavoidable.  It's
been a while since I've gone through that exercise so it should prove
instructive.

cgf