On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > 4) If you want to perform a clean rebuild, just run the following > command first before repeating step #3. Beware that removing thousands > of files on my machine takes between 5 and 25 minutes (it varies for > some reason) and could take up to an hour if the Windows machine is
cygwin's file-delete is very slow. Generally the Windows delete is much faster (even counting emptying the trash). > particularly slow. Of course, Linux with ResierFS completes this > operation immediately. sort of. I've observed that there's a big performance hit when I untar large files or do other operations that create new files. Haven't noticed that it's an faq though. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
