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Re:Slow Software by jaxn on Thursday November 22, 2018 @01:09AM (#18508199)

Microsoft Defender destroys WSL performance unless you create exclusions.

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Re:Slow Software by setquk on Thursday November 22, 2018 @03:11AM (#18508596)

Then there’s NTFS behind that. Just use a VM. Ten times faster.

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Re:Slow Software by jaxn on Thursday November 22, 2018 @11:18AM (#18510832)

For what I am using it for, a VM is not faster than WSL. Maybe in the early days, but not now.

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Re:Slow Software by dagw on Thursday November 22, 2018 @07:34AM (#18509600)

Ten times faster at what? Do you have any benchmarks?

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Re:Slow Software by setquk on Thursday November 22, 2018 @02:18PM (#18511925)

Writing and reading lots of small files on disk. Which is basically what 90% of Unixes are.

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