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by manigandham 2947 days ago
The windows subsystem for linux? It's dealing with lots of tiny files going through a virtualization layer, you might want to just use the Windows native version of Yarn which is very fast.
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jaxn 2947 days ago
NTFS may not handle a bunch of small files well, but I'm pretty sure WSL isn't a virtuialization layer.
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steve_adams_86 2946 days ago
You're right (I didn't realize this): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq#why-would-i...
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jaxn 2946 days ago
It's pretty neat (I use it every day).

It closes the gap on OSX for "*nix experience on a computer that can run Photoshop and Excel"

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