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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: I installed openSUSE Leap
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 01:26:33 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 11:41:10 -0400, DFS wrote:

> On 10/19/2024 9:46 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:07:23 -0400, DFS wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:07:23 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> temp_txt folder containing 100K text files deleted in about 10 seconds
>>
>>      ldo@theon:hack> mkdir test
>>      ldo@theon:hack> cd test
>>      ldo@theon:test> time for i in $(seq 1 99998); do fn=$(printf %0.5d.png $i); touch $fn; done
>>
>>      real    3m9.451s
>>      user    1m56.907s
>>      sys     1m18.000s
>>
>>      ldo@theon:test> cd ..
>>      ldo@theon:hack> time rm -rf test
>>
>>      real    0m0.817s
>>      user    0m0.060s
>>      sys     0m0.757s
>>
>> Any questions?
> 
> If you insist: why is bash so slow?

That’s an easy one to answer. Do you want me to try it again?

> On my Win11 AMD 5600G machine, to create and delete 100K files:
>
> WSL Ubuntu bash: 141.2s create,  1.4s delete, 142.6 total (your script)
> PowerShell     :  21.2s create, 10.5s delete,  31.7 total Python + cmd  
> :  16.6s create,  6.7s delete,  23.3 total
> 
> ouch!

Going through the Windows filesystem bottleneck, naturally. Try it on
a genuine Linux system, not on WSL2.

By the way, I thought you were scared to try this on your poor,
fragile Dimdows machine, in case something broke?

How’s it holding up so far? Did you have to do a reinstall afterwards?