Re: Git performance on OS X

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 05:31:41PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Maybe my CPU is faster too (2.66GHz Core 2), but the thing is, Linux 
really does tend to outperform others at a lot of these kinds of loads. 
System calls are fast to begin with, and the Linux directory cache kicks 
ass, if I do say so myself.

Yes, Linux is really fast. Even with relatively old AMD Sempron 1.8 GHz,
I got the following numbers:
real    0m0.177s
real    0m0.154s

Dmitry