Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Overhead of =dirname pathcompression logic

[Andrew Suffield]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:53:59PM -0500, Ron Parker wrote:
> This gives a fair idea of the current overhead resulting from
> pathcompression versus the other Windows factors. The pathcompressed
> get took ~21s or 59% longer than the regular tla. Additionally, as
> John pointed out the pathcompressed get under Windows on the same
> hardware was nearly an order of magnitude slower. Hmm, my old 300MHz
> PII with Linux would be faster than my 2.4GHz P4 with Windows. Ouch.

I think you'll find that it doesn't scale with processor speed. IO
performance under windows is truly abysmal and tends to be the
limiting factor (and NTFS is pretty bad too, which magnifies the
effect).

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