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Why is Windows so slow?

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337 points kristianp | 2 comments | 19 Dec 11 06:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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jstclair ◴[19 Dec 11 07:48 UTC] No.3368887[source]▶
Wow, so if you want to test file system speeds, you do it by listing files - I know this just an example, but perhaps it has something to do with the speed of the terminal?

There are a plethora of disk benchmarking tools - I doubt that they consistently show 40x differences.

Hooves -> horses, and all that.

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1. perlgeek ◴[19 Dec 11 08:02 UTC] No.3368916[source]▶
Huh? He redirected the output to a file, so terminal speed doesn't really factor in here.
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2. baudehlo ◴[19 Dec 11 10:37 UTC] No.3369197[source]▶
It might be, actually, since dir is a command built into cmd.exe on Windows, not a separate .exe that gets run. It may be smarter to use "ls" from cygwin for the test.