Are these bencmarks recent and real?

[deadalnix]

On Thursday, 2 September 2021 at 11:05:44 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
>> On windows the same project takes 1.8 sec to fully rebuild, 
>> windows likes to make things slow.. i wonder if that's because 
>> of the linker, i don't know how to check that
>
> File system access is significantly slower on Windows because 
> of case insensitivity, Unicode and more metadata accesses per 
> file. This overhead is far from being negligible when accessing 
> a lot of small files (on NTFS afaicr files < than cluster size 
> are stored inside the special directory structure requiring 
> special operation to extract and other such oddities).

While true, this doesn't even remotely explain the difference.

Windows filesystem performance are a disaster. Don't take it from 
me, take it from the windows team itself, for instance: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQEgeoabHNo

In that presentation, the engineer explain the challenge of using 
a git monorepo at microsoft, and process creation performance as 
well as file system performance where both major issue vs linux, 
and to a lesser extent OSX.