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by zokier 57 days ago
afaik far bigger factor is that windows file io is just generally much slower than linux. both of these are further exacerbated by av solutions which are ubiquitous in windows. that is why ms introduced "dev drive" in windows few years back which in their own benchmarks showed biggest gain specifically with git: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/06/01/dev-dr...