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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> 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.

Now that I'm dual booting, I get a subjective view of speed on Windows 11 vs
Linux that confirms my impression of the slow Windows on my work laptop.

The things I put up with for software development!

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