Re: I installed openSUSE Leap

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 11:41:10 -0400, DFS wrote:
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On 10/19/2024 9:46 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:07:23 -0400, DFS wrote:
On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:07:23 -0400, DFS wrote:
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temp_txt folder containing 100K text files deleted in about 10 seconds

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     ldo@theon:hack> mkdir test
     ldo@theon:hack> cd test
     ldo@theon:test> time for i in $(seq 1 99998); do fn=$(printf %0.5d.png $i); touch $fn; done
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     real    3m9.451s
     user    1m56.907s
     sys     1m18.000s
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     ldo@theon:test> cd ..
     ldo@theon:hack> time rm -rf test
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     real    0m0.817s
     user    0m0.060s
     sys     0m0.757s
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Any questions?

 
If you insist: why is bash so slow?

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That’s an easy one to answer. Do you want me to try it again?
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On my Win11 AMD 5600G machine, to create and delete 100K files:
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WSL Ubuntu bash: 141.2s create,  1.4s delete, 142.6 total (your script)
PowerShell     :  21.2s create, 10.5s delete,  31.7 total Python + cmd 
:  16.6s create,  6.7s delete,  23.3 total
 
ouch!

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Going through the Windows filesystem bottleneck, naturally. Try it on
a genuine Linux system, not on WSL2.

Now that I'm dual booting, I get a subjective view of speed on Windows 11 vs
Linux that confirms my impression of the slow Windows on my work laptop.

The things I put up with for software development!

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