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

On 2/27/06, Rutger Nijlunsing [off-list ref] wrote:

I'm not saying Cygwin is bad (actually, I'm installing on every
Windows PC I get my hand on ;), but using Cygwin for all file IO
instead of native Windows IO makes git a magnitude slower on Windows

By "slow filesystem" I actually meant the native filesystem access.
Cygwin does make it 6 times slower, that's right, and this can be
considered a disaster of course, but not as big as the windows api.