Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

Re:Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was... by waterhouse on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @01:51AM (#18226921)

I tried WSL briefly and discovered that the overhead of forking processes is annoyingly high, just like when I'd used cygwin in the past. (Maybe I should have expected that, but...) Try doing something like:

  time for i in $(seq 1 100); do /bin/pwd; done | wc

Compare on Linux (or even Mac OS) vs WSL. I was disappointed.

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Re:Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was... by zerkten on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @09:23AM (#18229120)

Did you report this as an issue? They seem to be fairly responsive to feedback. Would be interesting to see what their take is.

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Re:Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was... by llampx on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @10:48AM (#18229795)

I believe Windows Defender is responsible for a lot of the IO overhead within WSL. You can get around that by marking your development directory as "don't scan" within Defender.

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