Re: Stealing a Great Idea from the 6600

On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 19:23:34 +0000, Terje Mathisen wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 14:00:28 -0500, BGB wrote:
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Some stuff say builds should not take quite this long, but this is what
I am seeing...

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On Windows, the filesystem can be quite a bottleneck.
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Said bottleneck is almost always related to anti-virus programs, if you
are accessing a lot of files the latency of the scanner green light can
be pretty awful.

People still run anti-virus software ?!? Gasp....no wonder we need
5GHz processors.......
I don't run them anymore...

I know that rustup, the Rust installation tool, used to be around an
order of magnitude slower on Windows than Linux, with the same hardware
platform. It turns out that the maximum throughput for AV+NTFS is about
the same as for Linux, so by making all the file create/write/close
operations async, they managed to get speed parity.
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Terje