Re: Git performance on OS X

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

Taking three seconds for the warm-cache case for just 50,000 files is 
ludicrous. That's about an order-and-a-half slower than what I see.

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.

OS X doth suck. 

Oh, but OS X does utf8 unification and case folding: so it is actually
doing quite a bit more than Linux.

Of course, doing that sucks for even more reasons, but it is not an
accident.  It is intentional brain damage.

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