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Wish Microsoft fixed the following two things

a. Fix IO overheads - things like cloning git repositories, copying directories with several thousands of small files, compilation are all much slower on Windows.

b. Write a proper terminal.

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proper terminal APIs are coming in w10 october update, so then we will see how a real win10 terminal would work, and not just another cmd reskin as it has always been...

What about IO? I half suspect its the file notification apis that cause the slowness (since disabling antivirus seems to help a fair amount) but would love to hear more from people in the know. What are the things standing between how things are now and matching linux on the time it takes to git clone a large repo + compile it.

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