Re: windows problems summary

On 3/2/06, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

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1. opened and mmaped files can't be removed or renamed
  (caused workaround with reading index in memory)

It was not the locking which caused the workaround. It was the
not-working. (I still have to find a Windows machine where git-whatchanged
does not segfault without NO_MMAP.)

me too. It crashes everywhere here.

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4. non-unix permissions model
  (breaks x-attr)
5. real slow filesystems and caching
  (makes everything slow. I noticed I'm trying to avoid git status!).
  Caused workaround with manual checkout)
6. real slow program startup
  (makes everything slow, eventually may cause everything being put
  in one super-executable, just to avoid spawning new processes,
  with all associated problems. Makes scripting harder)

Except for (4), these issues should be resolvable by the libifying effort.

How can it help with 5? Less accesses to index?