On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:30:49PM +0100, Rutger Nijlunsing wrote: >However, the point I was trying to make was that git might be sped up >by a magnitude (although not all of the magnitudes in comparison to >Linux) by looking at why the file IO is this slow: Windows' file IO is >_not_ the only reason. Using a different/new/better fitted interface >to Cygwin or Win32 for a specific git task might help, although I have >no clue what or how. I'm going to revisit Cygwin's file I/O soon to see if I can figure out what's adding the overhead and see if it really is inavoidable. It's been a while since I've gone through that exercise so it should prove instructive. cgf - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html