<story><title>SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)</title><url>https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjoonathan</author><text>It isn&amp;#x27;t just Windows 10, as far as I know every version of windows has always wanted to spend like a minute (or multiple minutes!) slowly counting the files before it proceeds to slowly delete them one by one... until it finds one that&amp;#x27;s open in a background process and nixes the whole operation in a half complete state. 5 times slower sounds conservative. It&amp;#x27;s awful.&lt;p&gt;Hey, maybe they could put rounded corners on the file deletion window, I bet that would fix it!</text></item><item><author>laurent123456</author><text>Is it a known issue that the filesystem on Windows 10 is so slow? Being 5 times slower than macOS was roughly my experience but I thought there was just something wrong with my Windows laptop. I can&amp;#x27;t find any benchmark or explanation about this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikestew</author><text>The only reason I&amp;#x27;m posting on HN right now is because I dared to right-click a folder on a network share. &lt;i&gt;MyFolderName (not responding)&lt;/i&gt;, whelp, guess I&amp;#x27;ll go fuck off for 60 seconds while every item in that shortcut menu opens a network connection, navigates to...or whatever the hell it&amp;#x27;s doing. Yeah, I know, use the CLI. OTOH, I argue: fix your broken UI.&lt;p&gt;I worked at MSFT for eight years as a full-time, Flavorade-guzzling employee, and fifteen years later rarely a day goes by that I don&amp;#x27;t question how Microsoft manages to get anyone to buy that steaming pile they call an operating system.</text></comment>
<story><title>SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)</title><url>https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjoonathan</author><text>It isn&amp;#x27;t just Windows 10, as far as I know every version of windows has always wanted to spend like a minute (or multiple minutes!) slowly counting the files before it proceeds to slowly delete them one by one... until it finds one that&amp;#x27;s open in a background process and nixes the whole operation in a half complete state. 5 times slower sounds conservative. It&amp;#x27;s awful.&lt;p&gt;Hey, maybe they could put rounded corners on the file deletion window, I bet that would fix it!</text></item><item><author>laurent123456</author><text>Is it a known issue that the filesystem on Windows 10 is so slow? Being 5 times slower than macOS was roughly my experience but I thought there was just something wrong with my Windows laptop. I can&amp;#x27;t find any benchmark or explanation about this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>I think that&amp;#x27;s warts in the file explorer more so than warts in the system itself.</text></comment>