Re: Magit slow on Windows

[Óscar Fuentes]

Bastian Bechtold <address@hidden> writes:

>> So it is not that NTFS is slower than ext4/whatever for all relevant use
>> cases, but that git is fine-tuned for the GNU/Linux filesystems. Plus,
>> creating processes is much slower on Windows than on GNU/Linux (that's
>> an undeniable fact.) As magit runs several commands for several
>> often-used operations, that makes a big difference.
>
> However, its performance is pretty fine on OSX, even though HFS is
> probably the worst filesystem that is still in non-legacy (FAT) use. I
> mean, a global write-lock, seriously?

The case of OSX (or any unix-like system, for that matter) is more
related to GNU/Linux than to MS-Windows: fast process creation, no
intermediate emulation layer, C system library closely tied to the OS
API, etc.