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Re:Windows file access performance compared to Linux by Strom on Saturday December 29, 2018 @09:32PM (#18786998)
Windows Defender is an abomination. It makes file operations on regular Windows also extremely slow. For example unpacking the Go 1.11 zip which is 8700 files takes a second with my PCIe SSD with Windows Defender disabled. Enable it and the extraction time rises to several minutes.
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Re:Windows file access performance compared to Linux by tyingq on Saturday December 29, 2018 @09:44PM (#18787038)
I wonder if their "real time protection" is making a network request every time you open a new file.
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