Re:SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)
by notriddle on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:30PM
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Yeah, this but unironically.
The Windows filesystem has dismal performance. The Windows graphics stack is arguably better than Linux’s. And it’s not just the drivers, so you can’t just blame it on GPU vendors, though poor support from a certain popular GPU vendor definitely doesn’t help.
Some of it is just the little things, like doing mouse movement at very high priority in kernel space [1] [2]. Other parts are bigger and more impressive, like allowing the graphics driver to crash/upgrade/restart without you also losing all of your open windows.
The Windows filesystem has dismal performance. The Windows graphics stack is arguably better than Linux’s. And it’s not just the drivers, so you can’t just blame it on GPU vendors, though poor support from a certain popular GPU vendor definitely doesn’t help.
Some of it is just the little things, like doing mouse movement at very high priority in kernel space [1] [2]. Other parts are bigger and more impressive, like allowing the graphics driver to crash/upgrade/restart without you also losing all of your open windows.
[1]: https://reactos.org/wiki/Techwiki:Win32k/desktops#win32k.21P...
[2]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20061117-03/?p=28...