Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Taking three seconds for the warm-cache case for just 50,000 files is > ludicrous. That's about an order-and-a-half slower than what I see. > > Maybe my CPU is faster too (2.66GHz Core 2), but the thing is, Linux > really does tend to outperform others at a lot of these kinds of loads. > System calls are fast to begin with, and the Linux directory cache kicks > ass, if I do say so myself. > > OS X doth suck. Oh, but OS X does utf8 unification and case folding: so it is actually doing quite a bit more than Linux. Of course, doing that sucks for even more reasons, but it is not an accident. It is intentional brain damage. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
