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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: git@wingding.demon.nl
Cc: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NT directory traversal speed on 25K files on Cygwin
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:19:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4402C40D.2010805@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060226231701.GA11961@nospam.com>

Rutger Nijlunsing wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:55:52PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:07:07PM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
>>
>>>filesystem is slow and locked down, and exec-attribute is NOT really
>>>useful even on NTFS (it is somehow related to execute permission and
>>>open files.  I still cannot figure out how exactly are they related).
>>
>>Again, it's not clear if you're talking about Windows or Cygwin but
>>under Cygwin, in the default configuration, the exec attribute means the
>>same thing to cygwin as it does to linux.
> 
> 
> I don't know about native Windows speed, but comparing NutCracker with
> Cygwin on a simple 'find . | wc -l' already gives a clue that looking
> at Cygwin to benchmark NT file inspection IO will give a skewed
> picture:
> 

Well, naturally. Cygwin is a userland implementation of a sane 
filesystem on top of a less sane one. File IO is bound to be slower when 
one FS is emulated on top of another. I think cygwin users are aware of 
this and simply accept the speed-for-sanity tradeoff. I know I would.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-27  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-20 18:37 Should we support Perl 5.6? Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-20 19:10 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-20 21:01   ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-20 21:15     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:05   ` [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6 Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:12     ` [PATCH] rerere: " Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:12     ` [PATCH] send-email: " Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:12     ` [PATCH] svmimport: " Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:19     ` [PATCH] cvsimport: " Junio C Hamano
2006-02-21 17:30     ` [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: " Alex Riesen
2006-02-21 20:36       ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-21 21:57         ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-21 22:19           ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-21 22:35             ` Eric Wong
2006-02-21 22:38             ` Shawn Pearce
2006-02-21 23:00             ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-21 22:38           ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-22 16:35             ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-22 19:44               ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-22 19:51               ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-22 19:54                 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-22 22:00               ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-22 22:25                 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-23  8:00                 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23  8:45                   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-23  9:35                     ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23  9:41                       ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23  9:48                         ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-23 10:10                           ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 13:29                             ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-23 14:07                               ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 14:22                                 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-23 17:13                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 19:32                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-23 19:38                                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-23 19:54                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 20:19                                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-23 19:51                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 20:31                                       ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-24  6:43                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 21:43                                   ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-26 19:55                                 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-26 20:18                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-26 20:40                                     ` Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 14:18                                       ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 15:18                                         ` Mark Wooding
2006-03-02 16:11                                           ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 15:22                                         ` Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 16:20                                           ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-26 23:17                                   ` NT directory traversal speed on 25K files on Cygwin Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-02-27  1:18                                     ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-27 18:30                                       ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-02-27 18:34                                         ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-27  9:19                                     ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2006-02-27 18:45                                       ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-03-02 13:40                                         ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 14:10                                   ` [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6 Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 15:00                                     ` Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 16:10                                       ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 17:39                                         ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-03-02 22:01                                           ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-26 20:33                               ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-24 12:02               ` Eric Wong
2006-02-24 13:44                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-24 16:14                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-21 20:56       ` Eric Wong
2006-02-21 22:04         ` Alex Riesen
     [not found]           ` <1cf1c57a0602211412r1988b14ao435edd29207dc0d0@mail.gmail.com>
2006-02-21 22:13             ` Ron Parker

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