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Subject: Re: NT directory traversal speed on 25K files on Cygwin
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On 2/27/06, Rutger Nijlunsing <rutger@nospam.com> 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.