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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by RamseyMcGrath on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @02:56PM (#10341412)
You'd be wrong (at least for grep) http://www.jwgoerlich.us/blogengine/post/2013/01/21/Grep-ver...
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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by kuschku on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @03:33PM (#10341693)
Except, GNU grep is even faster than Select-String, if you run it on a better filesystem.
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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by togusa on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @06:02PM (#10342719)
NTFS is only a turd on lots of small writes. It really flies on reads.
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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by kuschku on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @06:45PM (#10342951)
Unless it is fragmented heavily, which often tends to happen.
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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by togusa on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @02:08AM (#10344416)
Pretty much a non issue since 2012. It defrags itself.
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