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by Fire-Dragon-DoL 6 days ago
Could you expand? I never understood why this was considered acceptable, how is windows filesystem so slow compared to linux?

I am familiar with the issue, doing any sort of ruby development is a nightmare on windows because each require loads a file becoming increasingly slow at boot time

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WSL2 operates through a file-level translation layer, not unlike NFS in Linux, which can be a huge performance problem for programs that manipulate lots of tiny files, like git or npm.
Programs that manipulate lots of tiny files are a performance nightmare on Windows even leaving aside the issue of WSL2.
git and npm install are somewhat slower on vanilla Windows, true, but on WSL2 they're downright unusable