Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
by moljac024 on Monday June 04, 2018 @03:06PM
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WSL has horrible horrible IO performance. It's really not going anywhere until they fix it, and the fix won't be easy
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
by HelloWorldInWS on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @04:15AM
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But they don't really need to fix it. Sure, it'd be nice, but they're targeting developer machines and utilities with WSL, not a server replacement of Linux. Nobody would buy a Windows license just to serve from LAMP stacks on WSL over Azure or something. Speed requirements for dev machines are a little less stringent, and as long as they are hitting better-than-Docker numbers, they will still be providing value.
Sidenote: looks like I/O performance is really not that bad in most cases already, and sometimes even faster than Linux distros like Ubuntu: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=wsl-febr...