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spudlyo 24 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

Improve the speed of APFS. Like try forking off a job to create a bunch of git worktrees in on APFS vs EXT4 -- it's significantly slower. Deleting a ton of files, cloning repos, hardlink performance, etc; APFS performance is poor compared to just about any other Linux filesystem.

rahkiin 23 days ago [–]

The grass is always greener for some problem somewhere.

Try doing what you write on a (corporate) Windows machine with NTFS and file filters

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